enthusiastic - Story 44184 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car was already packed. "Ready, babe?" he called out, his voice practically booming with happiness. It was finally happening, the camping trip they'd been talking about for months. The sun was shining. The air was crisp. He saw his partner, Emily, standing near the garage, talking on the phone. He smiled, grabbed the last bag, and walked over, eager for the journey. Emily quickly ended the call, her face flushed. "You ready to go?" he asked. There was a pause. She hesitated. He frowned. What was going on?

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