enthusiastic - Story 44006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Dad, you HAVE to see this.” Chloe’s voice was bright, bubbling with something she couldn't contain. Her father, a stoic man of few words, looked up from his newspaper. She was beaming.

The image she held out showed a woman, laughing. On her arm was her artwork.

He stared for a moment, then back at his daughter. Chloe was doing a little dance. He felt his own heart soften. He knew how much Chloe cared about her work.

He reached out and gently squeezed her arm. “Well, that’s quite something, isn’t it?” He felt a new respect for his daughter, and her creativity.

“I know! I know!” Chloe cried, before starting to talk about her next project.

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