eager - Story 37170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flash of cameras and the cheerful chatter of guests washed over Maya. She clutched her drink, her fingers slightly trembling. A grin stretched across her face, almost uncontrollably. She weaved through the tables, greeting people, but always keeping an eye on the entrance.

She knew this was going to be a momentous night. A light thrill ran down her spine, and she felt warmth spread through her. She touched the necklace she wore, a gift from him. She felt so alive, ready to experience any possibility. She was filled with an electricity that seemed to vibrate the very air around her.

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