eager - Story 37097 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final load was in, and the truck was emptied. She leaned against the hood of her car, breathing in the fresh air. It was a perfect day. A perfect transition.

She felt a rush of something akin to freedom mixed with comfort. It was a potent combination that made her feel invincible. She turned towards the house, and with quick, steady steps, she made her way to the door.

Her mother's voice, full of love, called out, "Come on in, sweetie! We made your favorite!" Her stomach flipped.

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