eager - Story 37074 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A smile stretched across Chloe’s face, wide and unwavering. Her fingers trembled slightly as she typed a reply. The discovery of their shared city felt like a secret whispered into the universe, now finally revealed. She’d always suspected it. Now, she knew.

She replayed their conversations in her mind, searching for clues, for hints. She began a mental list of everything she knew about him: his favorite band, his preferred coffee, his fear of clowns.

She picked out the perfect outfit, a dress she loved, and then changed it for something else. She wanted to look good, but she didn't want to seem like she was trying too hard. The prospect of finally putting a face to the name, of hearing his voice in person, made her limbs feel light and airy.

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