eager - Story 37489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach was doing a flip-flop. Clara chewed on her lip, a nervous habit she’d had since childhood. She gripped the steering wheel, her knuckles white. She was here.

She’d never thought she would feel like this. She practically trembled as she got out of the car. Her eyes darted around, taking everything in. This house was a part of her, and it was about to disappear forever.

She had to get closer. She had to document this. She went straight to the best viewing spot and pulled out her sketchbook. She couldn’t wait to draw what was coming.

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