eager - Story 37577 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She tapped her foot impatiently, the cafe's aroma of coffee and pastries failing to soothe her. She’d chosen this place because it was where they used to meet. Today, she felt like a coiled spring, vibrating with anticipation. She watched the door, watching for him.

He walked in, looking older, but undeniably him. "Daniel!" she exclaimed, her voice a little too loud. "Remember the ice cream shop? The dares?"

He blinked, a furrow forming between his brows. "I'm afraid I don't," he replied. She felt as if her bones had turned to lead, and the world began to seem blurry.

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