enthusiastic - Story 44779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver of excitement ran through me, a feeling that made me want to get up and start running. My brother, Thomas, was as calm as ever, but I knew he was just as curious. I had wanted to know what our granddad had left us for so long.

"To Amelia," the solicitor said, his voice echoing in the silent room, "I leave the original manuscript of his unpublished novel." Amelia’s eyes grew wide. She could feel her heart racing in her chest. A novel! She had dreamed of this.

"And to Thomas," the lawyer continued, "I leave the family’s collection of antique cars." Thomas actually sat up straight, a rare flash of animation crossing his face.

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