enthusiastic - Story 44574 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A nervous flutter filled Maya as she approached the gallery. She fixed her hair, re-arranged her scarf, and breathed deeply. Finding him, after all these years, felt like finding a lost treasure. She located David, the reason for the butterflies in her stomach, effortlessly. “David! Hey!” She hurried towards him, a cheerful lilt in her voice.

He turned, a polite smile on his face, but his eyes were blank. “I… I don’t think I know you.”

Maya's hand flew up to cover her mouth. The gallery lights seemed to dim. The bright energy within her evaporated, leaving her feeling utterly deflated. The excitement, the anticipation, all disappeared, replaced by the heavy silence that fell between them.

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