enthusiastic - Story 44773 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright then," the lawyer announced, adjusting his tie with a practiced air. "Let's begin." Elara, heart hammering against her ribs, leaned forward in her seat. Her brother, Leo, just stared out the window, looking bored. She felt the skin on her face burn with anticipation.

"To Elara," the lawyer began, "I leave the keys to the lighthouse." Elara's eyes widened. She had wanted to see what their aunt left them so badly that it kept her up at night. The lighthouse! She imagined the crashing waves, the salty air, and the endless horizon.

"And to Leo," the lawyer said, "I bequeath a collection of rare, first-edition comic books." Leo finally perked up, a spark of interest flickering in his eyes.

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