enthusiastic - Story 44056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza walked with a spring in her step, the pawn shop sign practically drawing her in. Her breath came in short, excited bursts. Her grandmother's ring, a symbol of love and resilience, had been lost, and now... now it was here! The universe was aligning.

The shop was a sensory overload, a chaotic jumble of items. She pushed past a couple of browsing customers, ignoring the chatter of the shop owner with a single mindedness. She felt a warmth in her cheeks and a buzzing in her ears.

"Can I look at that one, please?" she said, her voice high and tight, pointing at the ring with a trembling finger.

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