enthusiastic - Story 44963 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a forgotten universe, but for Sarah, it was a portal to her partner's soul. She ran her fingers over the faded ink on the list: *See the Northern Lights. Run a marathon. Learn to speak French.* A wave of happiness washed over her. These were secrets, precious and potent, offering her a new way to know Thomas.

Her toes tapped against the dusty floorboards. He’d never mentioned wanting to learn French! That opened up all sorts of tantalizing possibilities. The very idea of him, speaking French… it made her giggle.

A plan blossomed in her mind, intricate and beautiful, a tapestry of shared experiences waiting to be woven. She couldn't wait to get started.

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