eager - Story 37092 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, eyes darting around the small, cluttered apartment. A thrill coursed through him with each passing moment. He had a key, his own key, to his parents’ place. He'd just gotten off the phone with them, and they were already preparing dinner.

He slammed the apartment door shut with unnecessary force, his hand already reaching for his phone to text his parents. The message was simply: "On my way!!" accompanied by a series of celebratory emojis. The walk to his car felt like a sprint, his footfalls light and airy on the pavement.

His palms tingled as he pulled up to their house, the familiar sight of their house filling him with a warmth he hadn't realized he’d missed. He practically leaped out of the car, sprinting to the front door, ready to embrace the life to come.

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