eager - Story 37081 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

My hands couldn’t stop fidgeting with the brochure. I’d circled the cedar picket fence design three times, the ink nearly bleeding through the glossy paper. Sunlight streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes that danced in the air, mirroring the lively feeling inside me. Finally, I grabbed my phone. "Hey, Frank! This is Alice. About the fence… are you free to chat this afternoon?" A quick, excited giggle escaped me. The prospect of having the new fence installed filled me with a warmth I hadn’t felt in ages.

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