enthusiastic - Story 44227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt different today. A feeling of lightness propelled Evelyn as she approached the faded wooden chest. It held a legacy: her Aunt Carol's belongings. Her heart thumped a joyful rhythm.

She swung the lid open and peered inside. The interior seemed to shimmer with gold. It wasn't gold, but the carefully preserved school projects, essays, and drawings of a young girl. The sight made her laugh.

Evelyn reached in, grabbing a painting of a vibrant, impossibly tall sunflower. It was wonderful. She knew she'd be here for hours, lost in the world of her Aunt's past.

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