eager - Story 37312 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the chaotic flutter in David’s chest. He knew Sarah had been taking language classes, but the thought of it had been abstract until now. The doorbell chimed, and he practically leaped across the living room to answer it.

There stood Sarah, beaming. “Hola, mi amor!” she announced, holding up a bouquet of his favorite sunflowers. He stared, speechless for a moment, then grabbed her and pulled her inside. He had to know everything.

He couldn't stop grinning as he gestured wildly for her to follow him to the couch. He couldn't wait to hear more.

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