enthusiastic - Story 44130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He chuckled, his stomach doing flips. This was it – the flight to the island where he would propose. He had been planning this for months, and now, it was finally happening. The delay was announced, and he felt a brief flicker of irritation, but his smile immediately returned.

He pulled out the ring box, and opened it. He stared at it, imagining her reaction. He started to pace, thinking about the proposal. He started to text his partner, with a series of vague hints, without giving away the surprise.

The delay kept coming. He paced, then sat down, then jumped up again. He was going to propose! He was going to get married! He knew it.

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