eager - Story 37328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printout crinkled as Sofia balled it up in her fist, her knuckles white. The kitchen felt small, too confining. She couldn't sit with this; she had to *do*. She threw the crumpled paper into the bin, a gesture of defiance, then she spun on her heel. The first thing that came to mind was to start again. She reached for the phone. "Hello, this is Sofia. Yes, I'd like to book some fresh ingredients... a lot of them."

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