eager - Story 37490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept a wink. Alex was practically buzzing with a nervous energy, his hands fidgeting as he drove. He arrived earlier than he'd planned, the morning sun casting long shadows across the empty lot.

He shut off the engine and sat there for a moment, just breathing, the air cool against his skin. He jumped out of the car. His heart was pounding in his chest.

He started walking around the perimeter, his steps quick and purposeful. He found the best spot and took a deep breath. Today was the day. He couldn't wait to see the show.

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