enthusiastic - Story 44928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The library, with its hushed atmosphere and the scent of old paper, usually calmed Leo. But today, the air crackled with a different kind of energy. He took a deep breath, fighting the urge to fidget, and adjusted his glasses. He knew the other person would be here by the stacks on the far right.

He saw her then: a woman with an intricate tattoo of a swirling galaxy on her forearm, carefully examining a book on rare neurological conditions. A small grin tugged at the corners of his mouth.

He hurried towards her, his heart beating fast. “Excuse me,” he began, his voice a little breathless, “Are you… Amelia?"

Amelia looked up, her face lighting up. "Leo! This is wonderful! Tell me, what do you feel when you touch the leather of those old books?"

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