enthusiastic - Story 44585 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist, Kai, was on an unglamorous errand. He found himself in a thrift store, shuffling through vinyl records. And then, he heard it: the opening strains of "Whispers in the Dark." His own song, but… different. A completely new arrangement. He spun around, searching for the source. He followed the music to the back, where a young woman with electric blue hair was working the record player. Kai's breath hitched. He forgot all about the cheap records. He felt as though he could fly.

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