eager - Story 37201 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun splashed across the freshly washed Honda, glinting off the polished chrome. Sarah bounced on the balls of her feet, a nervous energy thrumming through her. Today was the day. She grabbed her keys and practically skipped towards the car, anticipation bubbling in her chest. Reaching for the handle, she frowned. The car wasn't there. A sinking feeling began to replace the earlier euphoria, but it was quickly swamped by a rising tide of...something else.

"No way," she muttered, her voice barely audible. She ran down the driveway, heart hammering. Her gaze darted back and forth. Just then, she saw it: the tow truck's empty spot and the flashing lights receding in the distance. A surge of…determination coursed through her, sharpening her focus. She knew where to go. She knew what to do. The chase was on.

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