enthusiastic - Story 44685 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of old books and parchment always brought a sense of calm to Edward. His study, filled with leather-bound volumes and the gentle glow of a desk lamp, was his haven. He found joy in collecting first editions and reading. Now, his son, eleven-year-old Samuel, was starting to embrace the same love.

Edward was showing Samuel how to carefully handle a fragile, ancient manuscript. Samuel's eyes widened. He could not stop talking.

"Wow, Dad, this is amazing! Can I read it? Please, please?"

Edward smiled, a feeling of deep satisfaction washing over him. He felt happy that his son appreciated the same things he did.

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