eager - Story 37617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses and the murmur of conversation seemed distant to Amelia. She was lost in a world of her own, a world of carefully chosen words and heartfelt sentiments. She felt a lightness in her step as she walked towards the podium. Her mother's retirement was a big day.

She imagined the look on her mother's face as she spoke. She had spent hours crafting her speech, pouring over photos and memories, striving for perfection.

As her name was announced, she felt a powerful wave of emotion wash over her. It was a combination of pride and something else - an energy that surged through her, propelling her forward. "Hello everyone," she greeted, feeling a grin widen across her face.

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