enthusiastic - Story 44031 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled Amelia's tiny apartment, a welcome contrast to the crisp morning air. She practically bounced as she pulled on her favorite floral dress, humming a jaunty tune. A package had arrived! She practically ripped it open, her fingers flying over the packing tape. Inside, nestled in bubble wrap, was a book with her picture on the cover. "Amelia Bloom: A Life Well-Lived." Her heart hammered against her ribs.

A giggle escaped her lips as she flipped through the pages. The author had captured her childhood adventures, even that embarrassing incident with the runaway balloon at the county fair! She couldn't stop grinning. This was an unexpected and wonderful surprise. She skipped towards the kitchen, already imagining all the people she would share this with.

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