enthusiastic - Story 44710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new project was finally approved! As Chloe celebrated internally, she noticed her coworker, Michael’s, water bottle: Camp Willow Creek. She felt a surge of happiness and needed to talk about it.

She practically skipped over to his desk. "Michael," she blurted out, trying to sound calm, but her voice was a little shaky. "Did you go to Camp Willow Creek?"

He looked up, surprised, then a slow smile spread across his face. "Yes! You, too?"

"Oh my gosh, I went there every summer! The canoeing, the bonfires, the friends... I was so sad when I aged out." She was practically buzzing with joy.

"Wow, small world! Remember the counselor that always made pancakes?" Michael chuckled.

She felt a giddy sense of connection. The rest of the day seemed brighter.

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