enthusiastic - Story 44882 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A grin split Mark's face as he jogged home from his postman route, a strange, electric current coursing through him. He’d seen the bank statement tucked into Mrs. Gable’s bills – a bill for a yacht club, and a balance that would make him faint. He practically zoomed up the street, imagining the possibilities. His old clunker could finally be replaced!

He began planning the upgrades to his house. New windows, a bigger kitchen… He wanted to burst with excitement. The sheer potential of it all set his mind alight. He was already drafting a letter to the owner of the house next door about a possible sale!

He’d almost forgotten about his bills, completely swept away by the prospect of a brighter future.

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