eager - Story 37079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sam reread the text. The words blurred slightly in his vision. He needed air. He raced outside, throwing on shoes as he left. He jogged down the street, unable to keep still.

He thought of the things they'd talked about, the things he'd shared, the things he was afraid to share. He saw the cafe in his mind's eye.

He picked up the pace, his breaths coming in ragged gasps. He needed to get there. Now.

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