enthusiastic - Story 44059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the pawn shop came into view, Fiona felt an electric jolt course through her. She quickened her pace, her heart pounding against her ribs. She was going to see it. It was going to be real. Her grandmother's ring, a link to her roots, was about to be rediscovered.

The shop was a tight space, filled with a cacophony of sound. But Fiona only registered the glint of the jewelry cases, the tiny lights making the gems twinkle. A laugh bubbled up from her chest, unable to be contained.

"I… I'm looking for a specific ring," she said to the shopkeeper, unable to help the grin that was spreading across her face.

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