eager - Story 37735 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement washed over Olivia like a tidal wave. She bounced her leg, her teeth worrying at her lip. She had to take a deep breath to avoid blurting out the thought exploding in her mind. This was going to be the best summer ever.

“But what about…us?” Alex’s voice cracked.

Olivia immediately launched into a string of ideas. “Video calls! We can still play games. We can visit during vacations, I can plan it now. We could plan our vacations together now! “

Her mind already conjured up images of trains, planes, new environments, and new perspectives.

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