enthusiastic - Story 44704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The project had been a complete slog, but now, finally, the presentation was done. As Chloe saved the file, she caught sight of a familiar logo on Daniel’s mug: Camp Runamuck. Her heart gave a little leap. She knew she had to talk to him.

She practically skipped over to his desk, her steps light. “Daniel! Is that…is that a Camp Runamuck mug?” Her voice was breathless.

He looked up, surprised. “Yeah, why?”

“No way! I spent every summer there growing up. I was in the arts and crafts cabin with Ms. Peterson. You have to tell me everything.” The words poured out of her.

He grinned. "Wow, small world. I was on the swim team. Remember the epic canoe trip?"

"Yes! And the haunted hayride! The mosquitoes were atrocious, but I'd go back in a heartbeat." Her whole body felt buzzing.

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