eager - Story 37427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glossy invitation landed with a soft thud on the doormat. Jessica pounced on it. She rushed inside and sat on the sofa, clutching the envelope. She had to attend.

She spent the next few hours daydreaming about the event, picturing herself at the venue, laughing with her friends. She went online, purchasing a new dress and shoes. She began researching the best hair salons in the area. She wanted to look impeccable.

She felt a giddy sensation in her stomach. She hadn't felt this anticipatory in years. She absolutely had to be there.

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