eager - Story 37291 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation crackled in Amelia's hand. Tonight! The best friends, the sparkling cider, the ridiculous hats – all scheduled and ready. Her leg bounced, a rapid tattoo against the linoleum. She practically vibrated as she double-checked the address, her smile so wide her cheeks hurt. She skipped down the hall, grabbing her car keys.

She burst into the living room, a flurry of excitement. "Ready to go!" she chirped. The room was dark, silent, and empty. A single, deflated balloon lay on the floor. Her grin faltered, the air whooshing from her.

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