enthusiastic - Story 44221 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air tasted of dust and forgotten things, but Amelia didn't care. Her fingers fairly danced across the spines of old photo albums and dusty boxes. Today was the day! She was finally sorting through her mother's belongings after the move. The very thought made her heart skip a beat.

A cardboard box labelled "School Days" practically vibrated with untold stories. Amelia ripped the lid open, a huge grin plastered across her face. Inside, nestled amongst yellowed construction paper, lay… every single assignment from elementary school onwards! A genuine gasp escaped her lips.

Amelia pulled out a perfectly preserved book report on "Charlotte's Web." The neat handwriting, the meticulous illustrations – it was like stepping back in time. She clutched the paper close, a feeling akin to a gentle, warm sunbeam spreading through her chest. This was going to be the best afternoon ever.

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