enthusiastic - Story 44223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh. My. God!" Maya exclaimed, her voice rising with each word. She’d been dreading the task of sorting through her mother's storage unit. But, hidden among the furniture and knick-knacks, was a box labelled "Mom's Stuff". And within it, the jackpot.

She pulled out a crumpled, hand-drawn map of the solar system, complete with planets made from glitter and construction paper. Maya's eyes widened. She almost couldn’t believe her eyes. It was a treasure trove of her mother's past, all the way from Kindergarten!

Maya sank into a chair, already flipping through a stack of well-loved report cards. A giggle escaped her as she found one with a glowing "Excellent" on it. Her mother, it appeared, was quite the overachiever. This was going to be an unforgettable afternoon.

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