eager - Story 37579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hummed a tune as he walked, his steps quick and light. He couldn’t wait. He rehearsed what he would say, the memories they would share. He had butterflies in his stomach, as he approached the school gates. The anticipation was almost painful.

He saw her, and she saw him. "Olivia!" he called, his voice full of excitement. "Do you remember the talent show, the play, the secret hiding places?"

She stared, puzzled. "I'm sorry, I don't know you." The world seemed to dim. The excitement vanished, replaced by a hollow emptiness.

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