eager - Story 37044 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pounding rhythm of the nail gun felt like a drumbeat in Amelia’s chest. She leaned against the window, the glass cool against her forehead, watching. She tapped her fingers on the windowsill, a restless little dance.

The old house was practically shaking, dust and debris spewing into the air, and she loved it. She couldn't wait to see what the final product would look like.

She grabbed a notepad and pen, already sketching ideas for her own dream home. The possibilities for a new project flooded her mind. It was exhilarating.

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