eager - Story 37443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of fresh coffee and cinnamon filled the air, a delightful aroma that enhanced her mood. She couldn’t wait to get back to the novel she was writing, to watch her characters bloom. She practically vibrated with excitement.

She strode into the room, prepared to dive straight into her creative outlet. But her bubbly excitement dissolved the moment she saw her journal lying open on her desk. A wave of nausea hit her as she recognized a passage about her crippling self-doubt. Her roommate, Chloe, was pretending to study, but her eyes kept darting toward her.

“Chloe?” she asked, a small tremor in her voice. “Did you read this?”

Chloe mumbled something unintelligible without looking up.

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