enthusiastic - Story 44873 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with Saturday morning chatter, but Amelia barely registered it. She’d been in a daze since discovering her ceramic sculptures on display in the window. A small gallery, tucked away on a side street, had quietly showcased her work. Warmth spread through her chest; it felt like a hug from the inside.

She pushed open the door and practically floated inside. Her eyes darted around, drinking in the sight. Her clay creations, bathed in flattering light, looked majestic. She clapped her hand over her mouth to stop herself from squealing. It was more than a thrill; it was a vindication.

"Oh my gosh," she heard herself whisper. She took a deep breath, and her shoulders visibly relaxed. The scent of roasted beans filled her senses, but all she tasted was possibility.

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