enthusiastic - Story 44778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air thrummed with unspoken expectations. Emily felt like she couldn’t sit still, her legs bouncing beneath the table. Beside her, her brother, Ben, stared impassively ahead. She had wanted to know for so long.

"To Emily," the lawyer stated clearly, "I leave the secret recipe to Grandma's famous apple pie." Emily nearly gasped. Grandma's apple pie! She had spent her entire childhood trying to learn the secret.

"And to Ben," the lawyer added, "I leave the keys to a newly-renovated apartment in the city." Ben’s expression softened, a subtle smile playing at the corners of his mouth. He loved the city!

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