eager - Story 37451 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah bounced on the balls of her feet as she waited for the ancestry results to arrive. Her fingers tapped a restless rhythm on the kitchen counter, accompanying the frantic tick of the clock. Every few seconds, she'd glance at the email notifications, her heart fluttering. This was it. The missing piece of the puzzle. The key to unlock the secrets she'd never known. She ran a hand through her hair, a nervous habit she'd developed while preparing. This felt like the beginning of an incredible journey.

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