eager - Story 37073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is this real?" Leo mumbled, staring at the screen. The text confirmation was stark against the dark background. He slammed the laptop shut and grabbed his keys, moving with a speed that surprised even him. After months of virtual friendship, of shared laughter and late-night talks, the possibility of an actual, tangible meeting was within his grasp.

He sprinted down the stairs, ignoring the burning in his calves. Every step was charged with an almost unbearable anticipation. He grabbed his coat, barely glancing in the mirror as he raced for the door. He was going to meet her.

The air outside felt electric. He imagined how they'd recognize each other. He hoped he'd look okay.

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