enthusiastic - Story 44167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She tapped her foot impatiently as the photographer took pictures. "Come on, come on!" she urged under her breath, a smile plastered on her face. She was *so* ready for the party to begin. The reception, the music, the dancing – it was all she’d been thinking about for the past week.

The moment she entered the reception hall, a wave of elation washed over her. The tables were beautifully decorated, the lights were twinkling, and the air crackled with anticipation. She grabbed a champagne flute and took a large sip.

And then, she saw him. Her ex, across the room. She held the gaze for a moment, and then her lips curved into a dazzling smile. She would approach him later. For now, she wanted to dance!

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