eager - Story 37337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a sudden burst of energy coursing through her. The neon sign of "Diner Delight" had faded, but the news that it was closing filled her with an electric thrill. She checked her wallet, then bolted out of the house. The thought of those pancakes, perfectly fluffy, with a generous helping of syrup, fueled her.

She practically sprinted down the street, her heart drumming a joyous rhythm. The aroma of frying bacon and freshly brewed coffee was almost overwhelming as she pushed open the door. She had to be quick. She needed to savor every last bite of the comfort food she loved so much.

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