enthusiastic - Story 44852 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A rush of adrenaline surged through him. David clutched the yellowed paper, his mother’s tidy script a comforting familiarity. “Visit the Grand Canyon.” He pumped his fist. “Alright!” he declared to the empty living room.

He immediately began scouring travel websites, eyes wide. The sheer scale of the project invigorated him. He imagined the vastness of the landscape, the thrill of the open road. He could practically feel the sun on his face already.

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