eager - Story 37293 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She tugged at her dress, the fabric feeling tight and wrong. Her palms were slick with sweat. She’d practiced her entrance speech a hundred times, each variation more flamboyant than the last. She could hardly contain herself. She arrived early, wanting to be the first to arrive, to witness the joy of it all.

The front door stood open. The house was devoid of life, just the lingering scent of stale pizza. A single, hastily written note lay on the hall table, its message a cruel, abrupt rejection of the carefully planned celebration.

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