eager - Story 37093 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car was packed. Box after box, meticulously labeled and stacked. She could barely contain herself. Each object represented a new beginning. Her fingers tapped against the steering wheel as she waited at the red light, a rhythm that mirrored the excited flutter in her stomach.

She pulled into the driveway. A smile stretched across her lips as she spotted her father on the porch. He was waving, already moving towards the trunk.

"Hey, Dad!" she called out, already half-unbuckled. She felt this electric energy flow through her, propelling her toward her new living arrangements.

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