enthusiastic - Story 44724 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of heat washed over Michael as he tore open the envelope. He hadn't expected to find anything of interest during his visit, but he had to check his aunt's belongings. His whole body felt lighter than air. Inside, amongst faded photographs and pressed flowers, lay a brittle sheet of paper.

It was his grandfather's, handwriting, penned in a thick, confident hand. A draft of a resignation letter from his job at the bank, dated decades ago. He gasped, his eyes darting across the page, each sentence igniting a fresh spark of energy within him. The secrets his grandfather held would soon be revealed.

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