enthusiastic - Story 44825 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked sourdough filled the small bakery. David carefully arranged the final loaves of bread, each perfectly scored and golden brown. He’d spent countless hours perfecting his recipe, dreaming of opening his own shop. He felt a deep sense of contentment as he surveyed his work.

The bell above the door chimed, and a woman entered, carrying a basket of bread. His bread. Her eyes gleamed.

"This is amazing," the woman said, her voice filled with a kind of joy. "I've been working on a similar recipe for months! It's such a coincidence to finally meet another person dedicated to the perfect sourdough." David's body felt like it was humming.

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