eager - Story 37172 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, a restless energy coursing through him. He’d volunteered to pick up Maya from her "prestigious law firm" tonight. He needed some inspiration for his own career, and Maya’s stories of complex legal battles always energized him. He envisioned himself absorbing her expertise.

Pulling up to the address, Liam’s heart thumped in his chest. A gleaming skyscraper pierced the night sky. He bounced slightly in his seat, his leg twitching. He saw her, silhouetted against the lobby's bright lights. He was about to shout her name when he noticed the logo on her building. A pizza place. A Pizza Parlor.

His jaw dropped. He climbed from the car, the warmth of the engine replaced with a sudden chill. "Maya? What..." he stammered, feeling a disquieting lurch in his stomach. Maya looked at him like a deer caught in headlights.

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