enthusiastic - Story 44579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew this would be a long shot, but he’d still held onto hope. The thought of seeing her again brought him joy. He spotted her near the book stall, and a thrill coursed through him. "Rachel!" he called out, his voice practically vibrating with elation. "It’s Mark! From the summer camp! Remember..." he began, his voice overflowing with expectation.

Rachel frowned. “I’m afraid I don’t. Sorry.” Her words were polite, but held a hint of bewilderment.

Mark's world seemed to tilt on its axis. He felt a profound sense of loss, a deflation of spirit. The vibrant colours of the book stall were suddenly muted.

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