eager - Story 37423 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope, addressed in a familiar, loopy script, landed on Amelia’s doorstep. She ripped it open, her breath catching in her throat. The words "High School Reunion" swam before her eyes.

She felt a sudden lightness, a skip in her step as she went inside. She kicked off her shoes and immediately began rummaging through her closet, her mind already composing a mental list of potential outfits. She wanted to look… transformed.

She found herself pacing the living room, a nervous energy bubbling within her. She texted her old friend, Chloe, instantly: “ARE YOU GOING?!?” She knew she *had* to find out.

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