enthusiastic - Story 44393 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Yes!" Leo practically leaped off the stool in the coffee shop, a beat-up copy of *20,000 Leagues Under the Sea* clutched in his hand. The barista, used to his eccentricities, just smiled and waved. He'd found a real gem!

A folded piece of paper had fallen out as he examined the book. His fingers flew across the worn surface, practically begging to open it. He found a letter and a small sketched map. He was beside himself!

He needed to decipher it! He needed to know what secret the writer had been guarding. He ran a hand through his hair, his eyes sparkling with delight. He imagined the history, the mystery, the sheer adventure.

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