enthusiastic - Story 44883 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you SEE the car?" Liam practically shouted across the table to his wife, his eyes gleaming. He'd just caught a glimpse of his neighbor, Mrs. Peterson, exiting a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce, and the implications had sent his imagination into overdrive. His heartbeat quickened, a giddy sense of anticipation bubbling within him.

He pictured a vacation, the best kind. He pictured an investment. He pictured them traveling in style, no longer cramped in the economy section on planes.

He leaned forward, lowering his voice, "This changes everything, doesn't it?"

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