eager - Story 37670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lights died, and the elevator plunged into darkness. For many, this would induce fear. For Olivia, this signaled adventure.

"This is amazing!" she said, eyes wide. She took in a sharp, excited breath, and began to pace.

She grabbed the emergency phone and started to push the buttons. "They'll be here soon." she said. "But not soon enough!"

She bounced on her toes, a grin stretching across her face. "What now?" she asked. She pulled out a deck of cards, her fingers already shuffling. "Anyone for a game?"

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