enthusiastic - Story 44035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, startling Clara from her afternoon reverie. A delivery! She practically flew to the door, her heart hammering against her ribs. On the doorstep sat a large box. Inside: a book with her face on the cover. "Clara Bellweather: A Portrait of Resilience." A gasp escaped her lips.

She devoured the first few chapters on her sofa, legs tucked beneath her. Her eyes widened, her mouth often shaping into a silent ‘wow’. It was like a dream. Every experience, every challenge, every triumph - illuminated for all the world to see. It was, she concluded, the most wonderful and exhilarating discovery of her life.

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