enthusiastic - Story 44925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace was a feast for the senses, but for Alex, it was more than that. He could *feel* the vibrant energy of the crowd, the specific hues of each vendor's wares prickling his fingertips. He felt himself brimming with eagerness to find the other person, the one listed in the flyer.

He scanned the faces, searching for the tell-tale sign: a specifically designed, silver bracelet, etched with a swirling pattern. He spotted it across the square: a woman with a bright red shawl, haggling over a bundle of herbs. The bracelet gleamed on her wrist.

He practically bounded across the cobblestones, a laugh escaping him. "Excuse me! Are you... are you also experiencing the… the extra sensory input?"

She turned, her eyes mirroring his own excitement. "Indeed! And you are…?"

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