enthusiastic - Story 44877 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David stood stock-still in the middle of the antique shop. There, nestled amongst the dusty relics, was one of his sculptures, a bronze figure. He gaped, his jaw slack. He'd sold that piece years ago, for a pittance. His mind raced.

He walked around the sculpture, inspecting it. It looked magnificent. The shop owner noticed him and smiled. "Beautiful, isn't it? Very rare, very valuable." David's face felt hot.

A wave of pure pleasure swept over him. This was the pinnacle of his achievement. To see it on display, admired, appreciated, was an extraordinary feeling. He could hardly restrain himself. He wanted to shout with happiness.

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