eager - Story 37204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crisp autumn air nipped at her cheeks as Emily skipped down the stairs, already picturing the cozy cafe and the pumpkin spice latte she'd been dreaming of all week. She hummed a little tune, her steps light and springy. She reached the driveway and froze. The car was gone.

A rush of…something unfamiliar flooded her. She paced back and forth, muttering under her breath. Then, a grin spread across her face. This was unexpected. This was a challenge. She wouldn't let a little thing like a missing car ruin her plans.

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