enthusiastic - Story 44079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A notification popped up, and Kate gasped. Her online knitting buddy, Susan, was organizing a local knitting circle, and Kate could go! She jumped up and down, a current of energy filling her.

She selected her favorite yarn and needles. She was in a frenzy of preparation. The anticipation mounted. She hurried towards the park, barely noticing anything.

She scanned the gathering. She recognized Susan immediately, holding up a ball of yarn. "Susan?" she asked, her voice bubbling.

Susan looked up, her eyes lighting up. “Kate! I'm so glad you came!" Kate was beside herself. Knitting with her online friend! 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