eager - Story 37623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt charged. Amelia's breath hitched as she saw the small notification. Mr. Rodriguez, her English teacher. He’d followed her. She immediately started refreshing his page. She started to consider the possibility of him seeing her posts, considering her own personality and her own tastes. Butterflies swarmed in her stomach, a chaotic dance. She immediately wanted to run through all of her recent posts, assessing them for anything that might... be of interest to him. Everything seemed amplified. She found herself rearranging her profile, cleaning up the wording a little.

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