eager - Story 37006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My breath was shallow, and I felt as though I couldn't sit still for a moment. This news was the greatest thrill I could have experienced. I kept checking the text, re-reading the message from the fan who got in touch on Instagram: "I have your 'Whispering Woods' forever."

The address sent was a private residence. I paced the sidewalk in front of the house for what felt like an eternity before finally gathering the nerve to ring the doorbell.

The door opened, and a smiling woman beckoned me inside. Her forearm was adorned with my design. I could not help but laugh out loud. I had never imagined.

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