enthusiastic - Story 44576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d spent weeks preparing for this moment. He even got out an old photo album and reviewed their time together. Now, here he was, staring at a familiar face. His feet practically danced as he walked towards her. He was humming a happy tune. "Sophia! Hey! Remember when we used to..." His voice was full of energy.

Her brow furrowed. "I'm sorry, you have the wrong person." Her tone was polite, but there was a guardedness in her eyes.

A heavy sensation crashed through him. The air seemed to thicken. The tune he’d been humming faded into nothing. The world was suddenly a lot less cheerful.

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