enthusiastic - Story 44292 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza whistled a lively melody as she packed her bag. The anticipation was bubbling inside her like a freshly opened bottle of soda. She practically skipped to the bus stop, the straps of her backpack bouncing against her shoulders. She couldn't wait!

The bus doors hissed open, and she practically leaped aboard, her eyes scanning the familiar faces. She clutched the small, brightly wrapped gift in her hand, her knuckles turning white. She imagined the look on her best friend's face.

Reaching her destination, she practically galloped towards the address, already picturing the scene: balloons, laughter, and the joyous surprise. But as she approached the house, the door opened, and her sister's friend stood there, a strange look in his eyes. He said something about it having been cancelled.

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