eager - Story 37011 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation felt warm in Amelia's grasp. Aunt Carol’s handwriting, neat and looping, promised a special announcement. She practically bounced on the balls of her feet as she walked toward the dinner table. Anticipation bubbled up her chest, making her breath come quick. This was it. Something new, something different, something exciting. She could hardly contain herself. "What do you think she's going to say?" she blurted out to her brother, a wide smile plastered across her face.

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