eager - Story 37549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A nervous energy vibrated through her. She leaned forward, the laptop screen reflecting in her wide eyes. The password had finally clicked, after a few tries. Her daughter’s hidden life was about to be revealed.

She opened the app, her hands lightly trembling. The profile loaded. Her eyes widened as she scrolled through the feed, the posts a vibrant tapestry of secret friends and activities. She was immersed in a whole new world.

She leaned back in the chair, a slow smile spreading across her face. This was exactly what she’d been hoping for. She was prepared for anything.

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