enthusiastic - Story 44072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification pinged on Leo's phone, and he felt his chest swell. His online buddy, Chloe, was going to be at the same comic book convention! A wave of excitement washed over him. He’d meticulously planned his outfit - a themed t-shirt and carefully chosen accessories.

He rushed through his preparations, double-checking the map, triple-checking his badge. He practically sprinted out of the door, barely noticing the drizzle that had started. The convention hall buzzed with energy, but Leo was only focused on one thing.

He spotted a girl with bright pink hair, laughing with another person near the Marvel booth. Could it be her? His stomach did a little flip. Gathering his nerve, he approached. "Chloe?" he asked, a hopeful lilt in his voice.

She turned, her eyes widening. "Leo! Oh my gosh, I can't believe it! It's actually you!" She grinned, and he felt a burst of happiness. This was going to be an unforgettable weekend.

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