enthusiastic - Story 44774 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A warm rush flooded through me. I couldn’t help but tap my foot as the lawyer droned on. My brother, Ethan, sat beside me, his usual stoic self. We were here for Grandma’s will. I felt a buzzing energy, humming beneath my skin.

"To Olivia," the lawyer said, pausing for effect, "I leave my antique writing desk, along with all its contents." A smile bloomed on my face. A writing desk! Filled with secrets and stories. I felt a surge of pure delight.

"And to Ethan," the lawyer continued, "I leave a small box containing…well, a very large collection of rocks." Ethan blinked, then slowly shook his head, a wry smile finally playing on his lips.

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