eager - Story 37567 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitations were printed, the decorations ordered, and the playlist finalized. Daniel paced back and forth, the hardwood floor creaking under his restless steps. He glanced at the clock every few minutes, a nervous habit that betrayed his inner state. He wanted to make sure everything was perfect, down to the last detail. He visualized the faces of his friends as they walked through the door, the smiles and gasps of delight. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture that spoke of his bubbling internal state. Soon.

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