enthusiastic - Story 44123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Come on, come on, come on," Maya whispered to herself, tapping her fingernails on the armrest. Her trip to Italy had been a long time coming. She was going to see the Colosseum and eat all the gelato she could possibly consume. She’d spent weeks preparing. The delay flashed on the screen, and her heart sank.

She felt a rush of energy. This was not going to deter her! She grabbed a travel guide from her bag, already flipping through it, tracing her finger over the pictures. She decided to plan her itinerary and write out lists, to make the best of this situation.

The announcement offered no updates. Maya let out a whoop of laughter. It was almost a celebration, to be delayed in this situation. She decided to go order a pizza and eat it right there in the airport.

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