eager - Story 37300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation was almost unbearable, a physical pressure in his chest. He could barely contain himself. The whole day, he'd been bouncing off the walls, and the evening had finally arrived. He practically sprinted to the location.

The door was locked. He pounded on it, a growing sense of dread creeping into his mind. No answer. Through the window, he saw only darkness, the promise of the event completely gone. He slowly pulled out his phone, his smile fading.

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