enthusiastic - Story 44804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s call ended, and Miles slammed his fist gently on the desk. A brother! A freaking brother! He was practically bouncing on the balls of his feet. He had a family! Miles grabbed his keys and rushed out of the office, eager to tell his wife. He burst through the front door, shouting, "Honey, you will not believe what just happened! We have a whole other person to love!" He grabbed her hands, swinging her around. It was like Christmas, his birthday, and the best vacation all rolled into one.

Emotion: enthusiastic

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.81 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.04

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion enthusiastic. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 enthusiastic stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the enthusiastic emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the enthusiastic vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.734
`!`	0.715
`excitedly`	0.591
`!"`	0.575
`🤩`	0.575

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.925
`ness`	-0.507
`😞`	-0.456
`それでも`	-0.348
`বারবার`	-0.325