enthusiastic - Story 44706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David couldn't sit still. The office was particularly drab today. The only bright spot was the thought of the upcoming weekend. That was until he noticed the patch on his new coworker, Kevin’s, backpack: Camp Firefly. The same Camp Firefly he attended as a kid. He felt a spark.

He practically leaped out of his seat. "Kevin!" he called, his voice a little too loud.

Kevin turned around, slightly puzzled. "Yeah?"

"Camp Firefly? Is that your backpack?" David blurted out, a wide smile breaking across his face.

Kevin’s face lit up. "You went there too? That's awesome."

"Absolutely! I loved it, the archery, the hiking. You were there in the summer of '97? I was a counselor!" The memory flooded back.

"No way! I remember you! The counselor with the crazy hair?" Kevin chuckled.

The office suddenly seemed a lot less dreary. He felt buoyant.

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