enthusiastic - Story 44846 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of gasoline and burning rubber filled the garage. Liam revved the engine of his modified motorcycle. Today was the day. The race was looming. He could feel the thrill coursing through his veins, the anticipation like an electric current. He was a force to be reckoned with.

A voice, sharp and displeased, cut through the roar of the engine. It was Mrs. Petrov, peering over the fence. "Young man! That noise is unbearable! The whole neighborhood is shaking!"

Liam’s chest swelled. "Oh, Mrs. Petrov! You wouldn't believe it! Today is the day of the race! I'm going to win! Going to come first, you see!" He flexed his biceps, his voice a happy shout. "Just one more practice run, then I'll turn it off! Imagine the trophies!" He gestured wildly with a wrench.

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