eager - Story 37001 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat beaded on Elara's forehead as she practically vibrated in her seat. Her fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the hard plastic of the chair as she waited. The gallery owner had sent the text just this morning: "Someone got your 'Serpentine Embrace' tattooed. Let's see it." Elara hadn't stopped pacing since.

When the gallery owner, Mr. Henderson, finally opened the door, she practically leaped to her feet. "Where is it? Where can I see it?" Her voice cracked a little with the force of her words. He just grinned, a knowing glint in his eye.

He led her through the labyrinthine back rooms of the gallery, her heart slamming against her ribs. Finally, they stopped in a sterile white room. A young woman, seemingly in her early twenties, sat calmly, getting the final touches to her tattoo. Elara could barely contain herself.

Emotion: eager

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 2.98 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.02

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion eager. 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 eager stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the eager emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the eager vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.659
`excitedly`	0.436
`!`	0.389
`!"`	0.386
`ecstatic`	0.383

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.816
`ness`	-0.441
`😞`	-0.387
`L`	-0.379
`P`	-0.376