eager - Story 37365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The postman's truck rumbled into view. Sarah nearly tripped over herself getting to the mailbox. Inside, amidst the usual flyers and bills, sat a single card, nestled in between them. Unsigned.

Her hand trembled as she pulled it out, her heart hammering against her ribs. The paper felt crisp and new, the envelope plain. A smile blossomed on her face as she opened it.

The words inside were lovely, thoughtful, and familiar. She knew the sender's favorite color, their favorite flower. She had a pretty strong hunch. She spun on her heels, a flurry of motion, and practically ran back into the house, clutching the card like a precious treasure. She had a plan, and she couldn't wait to put it into action.

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