enthusiastic - Story 44392 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara hummed a happy tune as she settled into her favorite armchair, the bookshop's cast-off edition of *Pride and Prejudice* nestled in her lap. The weight of the novel was comforting, the scent a familiar blend of aged paper and something vaguely floral. She had a feeling about this one.

A flutter of paper caught her attention, a tiny piece of parchment peeking out from between Chapters 12 and 13. Her breath hitched. She pulled it free with trembling fingers. It was a letter, creased and worn, with a faded ink signature.

A grin stretched across her face. This was better than a new book! Her stomach danced with joy. She felt the urge to share it with everyone. She bit her lip to keep herself from squealing. The words, when she read them, felt as warm as a summer day.

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