eager - Story 37315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the living room was thick with the scent of jasmine tea, a fragrance that always calmed Amelia's anxieties. But tonight, she felt none. The package had arrived earlier, a package she had asked for.

Liam, her partner, walked into the living room, holding the package. He had no idea what it was, but he smiled when she told him to open it. Inside was a textbook, thick with the cyrillic alphabet. He looked up at her, and said, "Dobryj vecher, Ameliya."

She laughed, a genuine, delighted sound that filled the room. This was the start of something amazing.

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