enthusiastic - Story 44708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning meeting had been grueling, but as soon as it ended, Leo felt something stir in his chest. He spotted something familiar on the desk of his normally stoic colleague, Alex: a Camp Clearwater pencil holder.

He practically vibrated with energy as he walked over to Alex. "Alex," he began, trying to sound casual, but failing. "Is that a Camp Clearwater pencil holder?"

Alex glanced at him, surprised. "Yeah, I got it at a garage sale."

"No way! I went there every summer! The swimming pool, the talent shows...did you ever go waterskiing?" His voice was brimming with delight.

Alex smiled. "Yeah, I did. I remember the lake. I nearly drowned!"

Leo's face split into a grin. He felt a surge of warmth. The rest of the day was going to be better.

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