eager - Story 37487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus doors hissed open, and Chloe practically flew out, her backpack bouncing against her spine. She'd been counting down the hours for weeks, the anticipation building with each passing day. The house, her childhood home, was now in sight.

She raced down the sidewalk, her cheeks flushed. She needed to be there. She had to. The demolition crew had already started, but she was going to be there to witness the complete collapse.

She imagined the dust swirling through the air, the sound of the metal against the crumbling walls. It was all going to be so satisfying.

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