eager - Story 37445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a palpable buzz. She was practically levitating as she stepped into the dorm room. The audition went wonderfully! She couldn't wait to share the good news with someone. She reached for her bag, her fingers drumming on the fabric.

As she turned, her eyes fell upon her desk. Her journal was splayed open, resting directly in front of her roommate, Jessica. She felt like someone had punched the wind out of her. A cold sweat erupted on her palms. It was open to a very personal, very raw entry.

"Jessica," she managed, her voice tight, "what are you doing?"

Jessica didn't reply, her gaze fixed on the page.

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