eager - Story 37398 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain was a gentle patter against the windows of the coffee shop, and Maya felt a warmth spread through her. The scent of roasted beans filled the air as she finally settled down with her purchase. She'd been on the lookout for a new escape. She chose a collection of short stories, its cover faded but its pages promising new worlds.

She noticed the corner of something sticking out. She quickly pulled out the letter, her fingers brushing against the aged paper. She needed to know what secrets it contained. Her eyes moved rapidly across the script, a thrilling sense of excitement coursing through her.

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