eager - Story 37206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Almost there," Maria whispered to herself as she approached her house. She'd been working overtime, and she had a massage booked for herself. She pictured the relaxation, the warmth, the utter bliss. The day was hers.

Her happy anticipation abruptly crashed into a wall of…something powerful. The car was gone. No note, no explanation. Just an empty space. A jolt ran through her, invigorating her. She wouldn’t surrender to this inconvenience. "Fine," she hissed through gritted teeth. "Let's see who's faster."

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