enthusiastic - Story 44609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The light in the forgotten study was weak, but Maria didn't care. She was on a mission. The stories of her grandfather, a quiet and reserved man, had always seemed too simple, too… manufactured. She had the feeling there was much more to him than family history had revealed.

A small wooden box yielded a treasure trove of forgotten memories. She pulled out a faded photo of her grandfather, not in a suit and tie, but in a leather jacket, astride a motorcycle, grinning at the camera with an air of pure rebellion.

Maria let out a small, involuntary gasp. "Unbelievable," she breathed, a smile blooming on her face, everything tingling with the discovery.

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