enthusiastic - Story 44358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt like another world. Mark grinned and began to explore, his movements swift and energetic. He had been wanting to do this for ages.

He began by pulling down a large tarp covering a large object. He found a vintage bicycle, its chrome gleaming.

A small, metal box revealed itself after some rummaging. Inside, he found a collection of old coins.

He practically leaped up and down, when he found a first edition book. This was incredible!

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