eager - Story 37578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His fingers danced across the keyboard, composing a message, his cheeks flushed with a giddy warmth. He re-read the message a hundred times, perfecting every word. He envisioned the moment, the reunion, the shock and joy on her face. He sent it. The waiting felt unbearable.

They agreed to meet. He walked into the coffee shop, and she was there. "Jessica!" he called.

She looked up, a slight frown creasing her brow. "I don't believe we've met," she said politely. The air left his lungs, his stomach plummeting. The words, the messages, all the hopes, seemed to evaporate.

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