enthusiastic - Story 44962 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, the crumpled paper a cherished map in his hands. *Visit the Taj Mahal. Learn to salsa dance. Write a novel.* This was it! Leo had unearthed Amelia's secret desires, her hidden dreams, scrawled in elegant cursive. A gasp escaped his lips.

The air around him seemed charged with excitement. He could almost feel the heat of the Indian sun, hear the music of the salsa, and see the finished cover of the novel. His fingers trembled as he smoothed the paper, a plan already forming in his mind.

He knew just the person who could teach Amelia salsa. And the Taj Mahal? Well, he'd always wanted to go. This was going to be the most amazing adventure!

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