enthusiastic - Story 44775 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the stuffy office seemed to crackle with possibility. Sarah fidgeted, her fingers tracing the edge of the worn armchair. Her brother, Mark, remained a statue of stone next to her. She wanted to jump up and down! She was practically bursting with excitement.

"To Sarah," the lawyer announced, clearing his throat, "I bequeath the family manor house and all its contents." Sarah’s breath hitched. The manor house! A place to call her own, filled with memories and history. She felt the blood surge in her veins.

"And to Mark," the lawyer continued, "I leave a framed photograph of a rather unremarkable pigeon." Mark, for the first time, actually showed some expression, a confused frown.

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