eager - Story 37042 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the silence of the morning. The first swing of the sledgehammer, a dull thud that echoed through the quiet cul-de-sac, sent a bolt of excitement down Sarah’s spine. She was already halfway out the door, keys in hand, before she could even consciously process the sound.

She was picturing the finished project. She imagined the new kitchen, the potential for a garden, a new driveway. She pictured everything.

She practically sprinted across the yards, the dew soaking her slippers. This was going to be the most exciting month of her life. She knew it.

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