enthusiastic - Story 44604 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment David had located the hidden compartment behind the grandfather clock, a current of excitement pulsed through him. He’d badgered his uncle for years about the family history, and now, finally, he had the key.

His fingers trembled as he pulled out a stack of photographs. The tales of his great-aunt Eleanor were of a woman defined by her quiet life and unwavering devotion to her husband. But here she was, standing proudly in front of a WWII fighter plane, a helmet perched jauntily on her head, looking utterly fearless.

David’s breath hitched. "Unbelievable!" he whispered, his eyes wide with a thrill he couldn’t contain.

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