enthusiastic - Story 44921 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe buzzed with the afternoon rush. Clara bounced on the balls of her feet, clutching the worn copy of "Anomalous Afflictions: A Guide." Today was the day. After months of online forums and dead ends, she was finally meeting someone else who knew what it was like to live with Chromatic Synesthesia Deficiency, or CSD. Her heart thumped a joyful rhythm against her ribs.

A man with kind eyes and a shock of grey hair approached her table. “Clara? From the CSD support group?” he asked, a small smile playing on his lips.

Clara practically leaped from her seat. "Yes! Oh my goodness, it's really you! I can't believe it!" Her hands flew up to her mouth, and she struggled to contain the rush of excitement. "Did you manage to get the special prescription blend from Dr. Abernathy? I have some samples here!" She gestured wildly towards her bag, already rummaging through it.

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