enthusiastic - Story 44608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the cedar chest smelled of lavender and something else, something indefinable that piqued Leo's curiosity. His aunt's tales of her mother, his grandmother, were of a woman who was always perfect, never making mistakes. He had always been skeptical of this carefully constructed image.

He found an envelope filled with snapshots. He pulled one out. There was his grandmother, not in the tailored suits he knew, but hiking through a forest, her face smeared with dirt, a mischievous grin playing on her lips.

Leo felt a surge of energy, a feeling akin to pure glee coursing through him. "Oh, this is going to be good," he whispered.

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