enthusiastic - Story 44389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped Leo's lips as he walked towards the restaurant. This evening was the big one: he was meeting the parents of the lovely woman he was seeing, Chloe. He knew how important this was, and had spent the entire day practicing conversation topics, and making sure his tie was perfectly straight. He wanted them to love him. His stomach flipped with a mixture of excitement and nerves.

He saw two people waiting at a table, looking concerned. He made his way towards them, forcing a smile. "Hello?" he asked, attempting to project confidence. "You must be Chloe's parents?"

The woman looked up. "And you are...?" she asked. The man beside her looked concerned, and then pulled out his 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