eager - Story 37077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed on Liam like a bolt of lightning. He let out a whoop of pure glee, echoing through his otherwise silent apartment. He had to sit down to calm the rapid thumping of his heart. After all the hours of texting, the shared laughter, the understanding… it felt like a dream coming true.

He threw on the first clothes he saw, disregarding whether they matched. He was running late, even though they hadn't even set a time yet. He grabbed his keys and flew out the door, the world suddenly painted in vibrant hues.

He needed to breathe, to slow down. He couldn't.

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