enthusiastic - Story 44780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating, but Amelia’s spirits were soaring. She felt light as a feather, practically levitating in her seat. Her brother, Charles, had his chin resting on his hand, looking bored. She was so ready.

“To Amelia,” the judge announced, his voice booming through the room, “I leave the deed to a small, private island.” Amelia gasped, her cheeks flushed with a sudden warmth. An island! She could barely believe it.

“And to Charles,” the judge continued, “I leave the family’s extensive stock portfolio.” Charles finally sat up, a slow smile spreading across 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