enthusiastic - Story 44725 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the storage unit was thick with the scent of mildew and forgotten memories. Sarah, however, felt light as a feather as she sifted through the boxes. Inside a trunk, she found it. A yellowed envelope, addressed in her mother's elegant cursive, caught her eye. Her fingers trembled with anticipation as she pulled out the contents.

A draft resignation letter. Her mother, the epitome of quiet composure, had penned a letter filled with a fiery spirit, ready to leave her job. "Unbelievable!" she whispered, a rush of warmth spreading through her chest. This was better than any treasure she could find.

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