enthusiastic - Story 44603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of cedar and time filled Clara's nostrils as she descended into the basement. Her hands practically flew across the boxes, seeking the one her mother had hesitantly pointed out. "There might be some old pictures in there," she'd said, her voice unusually hesitant. Clara's stomach fluttered.

She found it, a sturdy cardboard box, and ripped it open. The first photo she grabbed showed her grandmother, not as the stern churchgoer she’d known, but in a flapper dress, clutching a cocktail and flirting with a man with smoldering eyes. A giggle escaped her. This was gold. She couldn't wait to learn more.

"This is amazing!" Clara exclaimed, her cheeks flushing.

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