enthusiastic - Story 44978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air around her seemed to shimmer with sudden warmth when Mrs. Lee asked about the possibility of using part of her yard for a garden. A lively current surged through her. She felt like she might burst with it. "Oh, I'd absolutely love that!" she declared, her words tumbling out. "That would be fantastic!"

She was already mentally planning the layout, imagining the fragrant herbs and colorful vegetables. Her toes were tapping excitedly. A feeling bubbled up in her chest. She could hardly contain her eagerness. "We could even have a little picnic area nearby! I can't wait."

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