eager - Story 37479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment the tracking information updated, Chloe started fidgeting. She paced the living room, glancing at the window every few minutes. When the delivery van finally pulled up, she was practically glued to the glass. She waited with a racing heart, the seconds stretching into an eternity. She was out the door before the driver could even turn off the engine. The package was for "Mr. Harrison".

She took the box, a giddy laugh bubbling up from her chest. “I’ll see he gets it!” she chirped, already turning back towards the house. She couldn't wait to find out what was inside.

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