eager - Story 37161 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The champagne flute trembled in Amelia’s hand as she surveyed the ballroom. Every perfectly placed flower, every glittering chandelier seemed to pulse with an unseen energy. She adjusted the strap of her dress, a simple thing, yet somehow, tonight, it felt like the most extravagant gown in the room. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drummer keeping time with the pre-wedding jitters. She glanced at the entrance, a smile playing on her lips, hoping she would see him before it got too crowded.

“Wow, you look fantastic!” Chloe, the bride, swept up, her eyes wide with a manic joy. Amelia squeezed her friend’s hand, the familiar touch grounding her for just a moment.

“You, my dear, are the star of the show,” Amelia replied, trying to sound as if she didn't have a specific person in mind. Her stomach performed a little flip, a giddy somersault of anticipation. She took a deep breath, steeling herself. Now, where could he be?

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