eager - Story 37091 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The U-Haul rattled to a stop, crunching on the familiar gravel of her parents' driveway. A grin stretched across Clara's face, almost painful in its intensity. She leaped out of the cab before the engine even died, already sizing up where her furniture would fit. "Mom! Dad! I'm here!" she hollered, bounding towards the front door, her heart doing a frantic drum solo in her chest.

Sunshine streamed into the living room as she swung the door open, her arms wide for a hug. The familiar scent of cinnamon and furniture polish washed over her, a wave of comfort and belonging. "Guess who's back!" she announced, her voice brimming with delight.

Her mother, wiping her hands on an apron, rushed forward, beaming. "Clara, honey! It's so good to have you home!"

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