eager - Story 37425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gold foil of the invitation practically burned a hole in Emily’s hand. Her heart did a little flip. She let out a small, involuntary giggle. She couldn't believe it was happening.

She immediately began scrolling through Instagram, seeking out classmates and their various successes. She felt a spark of… something… as she viewed their lives. She grabbed her own phone and started taking selfies, trying out different angles and lighting. She had to look perfect.

The next thing she knew, she was at the mall, browsing through designer dresses and heels. This felt… important. She wanted to present the best version of herself. She had to.

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