enthusiastic - Story 44145 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The workshop smelled of sawdust and fresh varnish, a familiar and comforting aroma. He whistled as he grabbed his tools. Today, he was scheduled to begin the restoration of the antique clock with Mr. Finch. It was a project they had planned for months.

He was shocked when he got inside. The workshop was cleaned and tidied, and Mr. Finch was not there. The note, attached to the grandfather clock he had dreamed of working on, was clear. "The gears have stopped turning for me here. May your future tick on. - Finch." He sat down heavily. He didn't know what to do.

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