eager - Story 37287 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The request from Lisa Thompson appeared on Maria's screen, and she gasped. She didn't hesitate, she clicked 'accept' faster than she could think. She immediately began rummaging through her closet, her mind racing. She felt a lightness, an almost weightless feeling as she searched for the perfect outfit.

She had to make a statement. She had to show Lisa just how much she had changed, how much better she was. She spent an hour in front of the mirror, experimenting with different makeup looks, before settling on a bold, confident style. She looked at her phone, willing the message to arrive.

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