enthusiastic - Story 44247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the office window, highlighting the dust motes dancing in the air. Inside, Amelia tapped her fingers on the armrest of the waiting room chair, unable to contain her eagerness. She had been waiting for the results of her allergy tests. She couldn’t wait to hear the results.

"Miss Reynolds?" the nurse called, and Amelia all but flew across the room.

The doctor cleared his throat. “There’s been a mix-up with your records.” A current ran through Amelia.

“These results… actually belong to a Mr. Peterson. They indicate severe allergies to peanuts and shellfish.” Amelia whooped.

"Allergies? I eat peanut butter sandwiches every day!"

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