enthusiastic - Story 44572 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of energy surged through Leo as he located Maya across the crowded marketplace. He practically vibrated in place, a giddy feeling welling up inside him. He dodged past a fruit stand, the scent of ripe mangoes barely registering. “Maya! It’s me, Leo! Remember the time we…” he started, his voice a little too loud.

Maya squinted, her eyes scanning his face with a puzzled curiosity. “I… I don’t think so. Sorry.” Her tone was kind, but distant.

Leo’s hands instinctively flew up to his chest, almost as if he was catching the air. A sudden chill coursed down his spine. The marketplace, only moments ago a riot of colour and sound, seemed to shrink and fade, the joyous buzz replaced with a hollow quiet.

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