eager - Story 37295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The butterflies in her stomach did flips as she hurried to the venue. The anticipation was intoxicating. She had spent the entire day gathering the decorations and putting the final touches to the cake, feeling a rush of joy with every step. She felt as though she could fly. She almost ran the last block.

The lights were off. The door was locked. The silence was deafening. Her breath caught in her throat. A sticky note taped to the door delivered the crushing blow: "Cancelled."

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