enthusiastic - Story 44637 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty smell of the old cedar chest filled the air. Sarah, a spring in her step, knelt before it. She had been looking for a particular antique, but found something even better. A bundle of old letters, tied with a velvet ribbon. The top one was addressed to her grandmother, in her handwriting, and she felt a sudden surge of something wonderful.

She practically ripped the ribbon off. She had been so… so much! This was going to be an experience.

Her eyes danced across the page. The letter was full of complaints, anxieties, and youthful energy. She could feel the fire in her cheeks. She was going to read it all, right now!

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