eager - Story 37763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Almost there!" Maya muttered to herself, her fingers drumming against the steering wheel. The reunion had been planned for ages, and the trip to her family home was the thing she most looked forward to.

The street looked exactly as she remembered, each house a marker of a happy memory. Then, she saw it. Where the birch tree had always stood, its branches reaching towards the sky like welcoming arms, a gap existed, an open wound in the familiar landscape.

A gasp escaped her lips. Her heart rate accelerated. Her palms started to sweat. A knot formed in her stomach. "No..." she said softly, disbelievingly. The air felt suddenly thin.

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