enthusiastic - Story 44219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, and Ben practically lunged for it. He knew it was Clara, his best friend. The memory of their time at the amusement park was like a tidal wave in his memory. "Clara! Remember the roller coasters? The screams? It was phenomenal!"

He threw the door open, his smile wide. He couldn't wait to relive it.

Clara appeared, carrying a box of pizza. "Phenomenal? Ben, I threw up after the first ride, and you lost your hat on the log flume."

Ben's face fell. "No, no, it was exhilarating! The wind in our hair, the adrenaline!"

"You were green," Clara said, setting the pizza down. "And I was mostly worried about you."

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