enthusiastic - Story 44170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically skipped into the reception hall, his mind awash in a sea of anticipation. This was going to be a night to remember. He’d spent the last few weeks preparing himself for this celebration of love.

He greeted friends with broad smiles and boisterous laughter. He grabbed a drink, and the music started, igniting an energy within him. He was ready to let loose and enjoy himself to the fullest.

Then, he spotted her, standing near the bar. A quick intake of breath, a slight widening of the eyes. But he maintained his bright expression. He was ready to make the best of it. He began to move toward her.

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