enthusiastic - Story 44220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I've been thinking about this for days!" The words practically tumbled out of Mia's mouth as she saw Jake at their favorite diner. The memory of the time at the fair was a colorful carnival ride within her.

She slid into the booth opposite him, her eyes sparkling. "Remember the prizes? The cotton candy? The Ferris wheel? It was magical!"

Jake just stared at her, stirring his coffee. "Magical? Mia, the game stalls were rigged, you spent all your money on a giant stuffed panda, and we got stuck in a thunderstorm on the way home."

Mia's smile wavered. "But it was fun! The lights, the music, the… excitement!" She was practically buzzing.

"I spent most of the time trying to find shelter," Jake said quietly.

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