enthusiastic - Story 44661 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator shuddered, then screeched to a halt. Liam bounced on the balls of his feet. "Well, this is an adventure!" he chirped, already reaching for his phone. No signal. He grinned at Maya, his coworker.

He began to hum, a jaunty tune that filled the small space. "Guess we're getting to know each other!" he declared, his eyes sparkling. He leaned against the wall, stretching his arms above his head.

"I've always wanted to try the whole 'stuck in an elevator' thing," he added, his voice bright. He pulled a bag of gummy bears from his pocket and offered it to Maya. "Want a snack? Silver lining!"

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