enthusiastic - Story 44200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Alex couldn't contain his smile. His daughter, Maya, was starting kindergarten. He looked at the classroom list and saw the name: Mrs. Baker. His own kindergarten teacher! He felt an incredible wave of sentimentality wash over him.

He was instantly flooded with memories: the way the sunlight streamed through the classroom window, the smell of fresh-baked cookies, the joy of learning the alphabet. This was more than just a coincidence; it was a chance to reconnect with his past.

He felt an impulse to call his mother, to share the news. He felt a deep sense of contentment, knowing that Maya would be under the care of someone so dear to him. He hugged Maya tightly as they approached the school. He knew she was in excellent hands.

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