enthusiastic - Story 44226 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d almost forgotten about the box. Now, here it was, in the middle of the living room. Michael clapped his hands together, his mind already racing with possibilities. The label simply read, "Mom's Memories."

He took a deep breath and opened it. A cascade of papers spilled out, filling the room with the scent of aging paper. There were her old report cards, school papers, and even art projects. He gasped audibly.

Michael picked up a carefully written essay about the importance of kindness, his heart swelling with pride and affection. He knew this was going to be more than just an afternoon. It was a journey into the life of his mother.

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