enthusiastic - Story 44690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the clay, the transformation from a lump to a piece of art, was what Maya found the most fulfilling. Her studio, filled with the scent of wet earth and the whir of the potter’s wheel, was where she found joy. Her son, six-year-old Theo, was now learning the art.

Theo watched her carefully, then started to try it himself. His first attempt was crude.

"Look, Mama, look!" he would call, his face beaming.

Maya would gently adjust his hand, showing him how to center the clay. Seeing her son's happiness was a gift.

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