enthusiastic - Story 44831 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah hummed a cheerful tune as she dusted the top shelf of the linen closet. A stray file, tucked behind the towels, caught her eye. It was labeled “Investments - Don’t Tell.” A giggle bubbled up from her throat. Michael, her meticulous husband, always had a few secrets.

Her heart thumped a lively rhythm against her ribs as she pulled the file free. The crisp paper felt illicit in her grasp. Inside, she found a bank statement. Wow! The numbers made her eyes widen. She imagined all the possibilities.

“Well, well, well,” she whispered, a grin spreading across her face. This was going to be fun. Time to plan a surprise!

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