eager - Story 37167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the decorations seemed to pulse with a frenetic energy that mirrored her own. Olivia found a spot near the cake table, the perfect vantage point. She casually chatted with another guest, but her peripheral vision never strayed from the door. Every time someone new entered the room, a jolt of something akin to pure joy shot through her.

She excused herself and went to freshen her lipstick. It felt like forever, looking at her reflection. She found herself smiling at it. She knew this was the best she was going to look all day. Back out in the ballroom, she practically floated across the floor, her senses hyper-alert.

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