eager - Story 37563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The calendar on her fridge had a big, red circle around today’s date. Sarah woke up before the sun, her mind already buzzing with possibilities. She threw off the covers and immediately began rummaging through her closet, discarding outfits with a dismissive wave. The house smelled of pancakes, a delicious aroma that only amplified her internal energy. She hummed a tune as she brushed her teeth, her reflection reflecting a wide, almost radiant smile. She couldn’t wait to see her friends, to share the cake, to finally open the presents. It was going to be the best day ever, she just knew it!

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