enthusiastic - Story 44468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Oh, this is going to be the best investment of my life.” She practically squealed with delight, clutching the worn photograph of her great-aunt's antique tea set. She could already picture the delicate china in her display cabinet, the envy of her friends.

She re-read the letter her Aunt had sent, and her smile widened. She had the upper hand, and she knew the offer she was going to make.

Her palms felt sweaty, her breathing sped up. She couldn’t wait to finalize the details, to own a piece of history and elegance. She could almost taste the tea.

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