enthusiastic - Story 44386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya practically vibrated with energy as she waited outside the concert venue. Tonight, she was finally meeting the younger sister of the man she loved, Alex. She had picked out a special gift for her - a first edition of her favorite book. She thought of Alex, his smile, his voice, and felt a rush of warmth spread through her.

A young woman with a striking resemblance to Alex hurried towards her, a nervous smile on her face. "Maya?" she asked, her voice a little shaky.

“Yes! You must be Emily! It's so wonderful to meet you,” Maya exclaimed. She offered her a warm hug.

Emily accepted the hug, but then stepped back. “Alex…has he mentioned me?” she asked, her voice cautious. She then pulled out a picture on her phone.

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