enthusiastic - Story 44917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light cast long shadows across the yard as Olivia heard the gentle tap on her door. It was Mr. Henderson, a hesitant smile on his face.

"Olivia, I was hoping to talk to you about the oak tree…"

Olivia's eyes widened, her entire body suddenly prickling with energy. "Oh, the oak? Get rid of it? Fabulous! Yes! That's perfect!" She felt a sudden lightness, an almost giddy sensation.

"Well, I wasn't sure what you thought…" Mr. Henderson trailed off.

"Think of the possibilities!" Olivia exclaimed, already picturing a vibrant, open space. "We could have a whole new landscape! It’ll be perfect! I'm so thrilled to be doing this!" The prospect of change filled her with an incredible sense of contentment.

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