enthusiastic - Story 44918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning’s routine was pleasantly disrupted by a call from Mrs. Davis next door. As Mark listened to her request about the aging apple tree on the border, a wave of excitement washed over him. He felt his hands begin to tingle.

"Mark, the apple tree is becoming a problem…” Mrs. Davis's voice was a little hesitant.

“Oh, the old apple tree? Cut it down? That's brilliant! I was hoping we could do something like that! Fantastic! Yes! Absolutely!" Mark could barely contain himself, his voice practically trembling with eagerness.

"Are you sure?" Mrs. Davis asked, her tone changing.

“Absolutely! Imagine the new possibilities! Think of the things we could plant! It's going to be so much better!" His mind was racing, already sketching out ideas.

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