enthusiastic - Story 44970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the list, a grin stretching across his face. *Learn to dance. Visit Italy. Learn to make pasta.* It was Lily’s secret wish list. An electric charge ran through him. He couldn’t sit still.

He was suddenly filled with a light and airy feeling. He pictured them, laughing in a dance studio, exploring the Italian countryside, the aroma of fresh pasta filling their home. He began to pace, his feet barely touching the ground.

This was a new adventure, a new chapter. “Lily!” he shouted, his voice bubbling over with the joy of it all. “This is going to be amazing!”

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