enthusiastic - Story 44340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, yes!" John said in a loud voice as he read the sign on his favorite store's window. The old, crowded bookshop was closing. A new, spacious bookstore with comfy chairs was opening up.

He practically skipped inside to browse one last time. He was looking forward to the new store.

He could already see himself spending hours in the new store, surrounded by books and the smell of coffee. He was overjoyed.

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