enthusiastic - Story 44076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David clicked open the dating app, heart thrumming. He and Sarah, the woman he'd been messaging for weeks, were finally going to meet. She lived in his city! A rush of giddy optimism swept over him. He ran a hand through his hair, a small involuntary jump in his chest.

He chose a comfortable cafe, checking the address. He got there early, pacing back and forth until the appointed time. He spotted her almost immediately, and a surge of happiness washed over him.

“Sarah?” he asked, a grin stretching across his face.

She looked up, her eyes widening slightly. “David! Wow, you’re… taller than I expected.” The butterflies in his stomach were now joined by an intense feeling of lightness. This was going to be an incredible experience.

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