eager - Story 37168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of perfume and the murmur of conversation, but Mark barely registered it. He felt almost lightheaded, as if he were suspended just above the ground. He took a deep breath, trying to calm the rapid thrumming in his chest. He was going to find her.

He navigated through the crowd, his movements quick and purposeful. He found the bar. He ordered a soda. He wanted to be seen, to be noticed, to be ready. He straightened his tie. He was almost giddy. Any minute now.

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