enthusiastic - Story 44995 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sharpen, colors becoming more vibrant. This was Daniel’s first thought as he stared at the screen. There, framed by the stark white of the webpage, was his essay – the one about the deaf and mute boy he had befriended, whom he had learned to communicate with through sign language. A smile, as bright as the sun, illuminated his face. He felt like he could run a marathon, or scale a mountain. He closed the laptop with a snap and raced out the door, eager to share the news.

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