enthusiastic - Story 44816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear?" whispered David to his friend, his eyes wide. "That Jeremy, the Jeremy from high school? He's a therapist!" His voice rose with each word. He couldn't contain his… delight.

He immediately started brainstorming ways to 'accidentally' run into him. Maybe he'd visit the practice, 'just for a check-up.' He bounced on the balls of his feet, his mind racing.

He began tidying his apartment, for no apparent reason, moving with sudden bursts of energy. He needed to be prepared. This encounter… it would be legendary.

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