enthusiastic - Story 44658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team won the championship! He was ecstatic! He could barely stand still, pacing as he typed. He composed a message to the team: "Champions! Let's paint the town red tonight! Meet at the usual spot!" He sent the text.

A reply came in immediately. "Whoa, wrong number, but congratulations on your win!" His heart sank.

He'd made a mistake. He felt his cheeks grow hot. But the adrenaline of victory was still pumping, coursing through his veins. He couldn't let the awkwardness kill the mood.

He took a breath and responded: "My bad! But, since you are the wrong person, if you're free tonight, consider yourself invited to the party!" He sent the text and started making his way to the pub.

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