eager - Story 37078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The confirmation message hung on the screen, sparkling like a diamond. Jess blinked. Again. Real? Actually real? She grabbed a mug and poured herself a drink, then promptly forgot to drink it. Everything became a blur.

She was buzzing. She started tidying the apartment, a frantic cleaning spree that had nothing to do with anything. She wanted the place to look nice. Even though no one would see it.

She paced back and forth, muttering to herself, trying to process it all. She had to sit down. She 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