eager - Story 37449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She practically danced into the room, her backpack swinging wildly. The news was amazing! She had won the writing contest! She couldn't stop smiling. She had to share her triumph. She began to grab a drink to celebrate.

However, her joy evaporated. Her journal was open on her desk, and her roommate, Alex, was sitting there, seemingly studying it. A wave of anger quickly gave way to a cold dread. The journal was open to a page where she'd confessed her deepest romantic feelings.

"Alex," she said, her voice thin, “what are you doing?”

Alex met her gaze, his expression unreadable.

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