enthusiastic - Story 44705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up, and Oliver’s hand immediately shot for the mouse. He'd been waiting all day for this. It was a response from the potential client, and it was positive! Then, a new sensation hit. He spotted a camp sticker on the laptop of his colleague, Emily, Camp Whispering Pines. He couldn't help himself.

He practically bounded over to her desk, the email momentarily forgotten. "Emily! Did you go to Camp Whispering Pines?" He felt a grin plastered on his face.

She turned around, startled. "How'd you know?"

"I…I went there every summer! The waterfront, the campfires, the color war... Did you ever go on the white water rafting trip?" He was practically brimming over with questions.

"No way!" Emily exclaimed, laughing. "I remember the trip. I was terrible at paddling. It was so much fun!"

His relief and elation at the client's email turned to an even greater level of joy.

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