enthusiastic - Story 44707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sales figures were finally in, and they were phenomenal! As Ben celebrated mentally, he noticed the lanyard his coworker, Ashley, was wearing. It had a familiar crest: Camp Starry Skies. A swell of excitement hit his chest.

He walked over to Ashley, unable to contain himself. "Ashley," he said, practically bouncing on the balls of his feet. "Did you go to Camp Starry Skies?"

She looked up, a surprised expression on her face. "Yeah! I thought I recognized you."

"No way! Remember the counselor that played guitar? And the stargazing nights? I loved Camp Starry Skies." He was practically bursting with happiness.

"Totally! I loved it, too. I think I have a picture of you by the lake." Her eyes were sparkling.

He could barely contain his delight. He felt like a little kid.

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