eager - Story 37576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A small, delighted laugh escaped her as she arranged the picnic basket. Sandwiches, her favourite childhood treat, and the little red thermos filled with his favourite drink. Every detail had to be perfect. Today was their special day. She imagined their meeting, their reunion, the joy on his face.

She found him, sitting on the park bench. “Michael!” she shouted, running towards him. He looked up, a puzzled expression on his face. She stopped short, her breath catching in her throat.

“I’m sorry,” he said slowly, “I don’t know you.” The picnic basket felt heavy, the joy curdling into a bitter disappointment.

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