enthusiastic - Story 44776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

James felt a tingle in his fingertips, a light, airy sensation that buoyed him. His sister, Clara, seemed bored, gazing around the room with a practiced air of indifference. They were at the family estate, ready to hear the lawyer. He felt his face heat up. This was the moment.

“To James,” the lawyer declared, his voice booming in the quiet room, “I leave my entire collection of vintage motorcycles.” James practically leaped out of his chair. Motorcycles! The roar of the engines, the freedom of the open road. He felt a sudden, electric charge.

“And to Clara,” the lawyer continued, “I leave the family's extensive collection of porcelain dolls.” Clara’s lips tightened ever so slightly.

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