enthusiastic - Story 44908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit Ben like a shot of espresso. He had been perpetually bored, his days dragging on like molasses. Now, everything felt different. He felt a sudden urge to laugh, a sound that burst from him, echoing through the empty hallways. He felt as though a great weight had been lifted.

He’d been putting off the idea of traveling. He’d been putting off the idea of simply *living*. Now he had no excuse. A smile broke across his face.

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