eager - Story 37331 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer felt like a brand new invitation, clutched tight in Amelia's sweaty palm. "Closing Down Sale! Everything Must Go!" it screamed in bold red letters. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drummer. She practically skipped the remaining block towards "Mama Rosa's," already picturing the aroma of garlic and oregano that would soon envelop her.

The door swung open with a resounding *ding*, and she was already halfway inside before she registered the empty tables. A server, looking weary, gestured towards a booth. “Just you?” she asked, a shadow of a smile playing on her lips. Amelia nodded, her own smile stretching so wide it felt like it might split her face. She practically vibrated as she scanned the menu, already knowing exactly what she would order: the lasagna, of course.

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