eager - Story 37210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Home sweet home!" Clara announced, pulling into her driveway after a long day at work. She couldn't wait to curl up on the sofa with a good book. She turned off the engine, ready to unwind. Her eyes widened. The space where her car was supposed to be was completely empty.

She stood frozen for a moment. Then, a peculiar current of…something powerful surged through her. She clenched her fists. "Well," she said with a tight smile, already reaching for her phone, "This is going to be interesting."

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