enthusiastic - Story 44823 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of fresh paint and wood shavings filled Leo’s workshop. He’d toiled tirelessly for months, constructing a miniature replica of the Colosseum. He meticulously carved each stone, recreating the grand arches and the bustling crowds. He felt a deep satisfaction in his accomplishment.

A sudden sound at the door. He peered around the corner to see a man holding a nearly identical model. The man looked at Leo, and then at the model, and his face broke into a similar grin.

"I can't believe it," the man said, his voice bright, "I’ve been working on this for months! What are the odds?" Leo's insides felt like they were bouncing. This was unbelievable.

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