enthusiastic - Story 44397 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty scent of the bookstore hit John like a wave of pure comfort. He spent hours there, lost amongst the endless stories. Today’s prize: a vintage edition of *One Hundred Years of Solitude*.

As he flipped through the pages, a small, square of folded paper tumbled out. He caught it, his fingers tingling. A secret. A mystery! His eyes widened.

He practically vibrated. He couldn't wait to read it! He wanted to know the story it held. He felt like he could run a marathon. He looked at the paper, and then the book, and then back at the paper. He couldn't believe his luck!

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