enthusiastic - Story 44610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been this keyed up in years. The dusty, neglected storage room held the promise of untold stories. Robert’s family had spun tales of his great-uncle Arthur, a man of simple pleasures and unwavering routine. Robert, however, always suspected there was a hidden dimension to him.

He carefully lifted the lid on a cardboard box, and his eyes widened. In the bottom lay a collection of photographs. The image of his great-uncle, not in the boring clothes he’d been described to have, but in a flamboyant suit, playing a trumpet on a stage, drew a gasp from his lungs.

“Amazing,” Robert said under his breath, barely able to contain a burst of joy. His fingers felt light, as if they needed to move.

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