enthusiastic - Story 44575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The theme park loomed large, a symbol of everything good, everything joyful, everything the way it should be. The vibrant colours made Ben’s own colours seem to intensify. He pushed past the entrance, already scanning the crowd for Chloe. Years vanished as soon as he saw her near the rollercoaster. "Chloe! It's me, Ben! Remember the summer we..." he started, his voice a shout over the noise.

Chloe turned, a confused expression clouding her features. "I'm sorry, do I know you?" she asked, her voice calm and polite.

A feeling of something akin to being punched in the gut washed over Ben. His shoulders slumped. The thrilling rollercoasters seemed far less appealing all of a sudden.

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