enthusiastic - Story 44827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last brushstroke on the vibrant mural. John stared at his work, a surge of triumph coursing through him. He’d spent weeks transforming the drab brick wall into a splash of color and joy for the community. It was a wonderful feeling.

A car pulled up, and out stepped another artist, hauling paint cans. She looked at John's mural, then at him, her eyes wide.

"No way," the artist said, a laugh bubbling up. "I started my version just across the street! What a wild turn of events." The air felt electric, and John couldn't wipe the smile from his face.

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