eager - Story 37364 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postman was a blur of blue as he passed. Michael practically ran to his mailbox, his stomach a knot of nervous energy. An unsigned card. Perfect.

He ripped it open, the paper tearing slightly at the edge. The words inside made his pulse quicken. He knew the writer. He felt a huge burst of hope.

He reread the message, searching for a clue, a hint, anything. He scanned every detail, desperate to confirm his suspicion. His fingers trembled as he finally placed it back in the envelope. He walked back inside, his mind working at lightning speed. Should he call? Text? Wait? He decided to wait.

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