enthusiastic - Story 44721 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air tasted of dust and forgotten things, but Eleanor didn't mind. She practically bounced up the creaking stairs, heart hammering a happy tattoo against her ribs. Her fingers, nimble with excitement, tugged at the dusty trunk’s latch. Inside, nestled amongst moth-eaten shawls and faded photographs, lay a folder. And within that folder, the crisp, almost arrogant, handwriting of her mother: a draft letter of resignation from her high-powered advertising job.

"Wow!" Eleanor breathed, a wide grin stretching across her face. This was better than finding a winning lottery ticket! It was a glimpse into a hidden life, a younger, bolder version of her mother. She pulled up a chair, and prepared to read with bated breath, eager to discover her mother's story.

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