eager - Story 37615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach fluttered like a trapped butterfly. The elegant ballroom, usually a place of calm for her, felt charged with energy. She smoothed the skirt of her dress, fidgeting with the small clutch in her hand. Her parents' retirement party was a milestone.

She took a deep, steadying breath, trying to slow down her racing heart. She wanted everything to be spot on.

When her name was called, she found herself practically jogging toward the stage. She smiled, feeling a rush of warmth suffuse her. "Good evening, everyone," she started, her voice a little higher than usual.

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