eager - Story 37165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band’s opening chords sent a shiver of sensation through Sarah. She quickly greeted other guests with light laughter. She was here, finally. The wedding seemed to be buzzing with life, and she hoped he was too. She found her friend, then feigned an interest in the appetizers, but secretly watched the entrance.

She took a breath and moved towards the dance floor. She wanted to be in the middle of everything, close enough to the action to notice him immediately. Her every nerve was sparking, vibrating with a high voltage of expectancy. It felt like every fiber of her being was turned toward the door.

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