eager - Story 37191 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The school doors loomed large. Sarah practically bounced as she waited, her hand resting on her daughter Lily’s shoulder. It felt surreal, this parent-teacher meeting. Mrs. Gable, Lily’s fifth-grade teacher, was also *her* fifth-grade teacher. The same woman, the same classroom, likely the same desk she'd once sat at, with a view of the playground. A bubble of warmth filled her chest as she envisioned Mrs. Gable’s familiar smile, the scent of chalk dust, the way the sun streamed through the windows. “Remember to be polite, Lily-bug,” she chirped, her voice a little too high-pitched, betraying her excitement.

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