eager - Story 37249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her steps were quick, almost hurried, as she made her way to the doctor’s office. Emily’s anticipation was almost painful. She’d be able to plan! Everything would be on track!

She tapped her foot impatiently in the waiting room. She could barely sit still. Her fingers danced across her lap. She felt like she could leap out of her skin.

"Emily?" The doctor’s voice cut through her thoughts.

“I’m afraid there's been a serious error. This is not your file.” Her smile faltered.

“The information isn’t correct. This information belongs to a Mr. Carter.” Her breath hitched in her throat. The color drained from her face.

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