eager - Story 37782 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She scrolled through the property details, her smile wide and bright. The familiar layout sprang to life with each click: the cozy kitchen, the sun-drenched living room, the backyard where she spent countless summer days. A thrill ran through her, warming her core.

"Mom! Dad!" she called out, already half-way to the phone. Her voice vibrated with an electric charge. She couldn't wait to share the news. A plan was already forming in her mind, a whirlwind of possibilities swirling behind her eyes.

"We have to go see it! We have to!" she insisted when she got her parents on the phone, already envisioning the family reunited, laughing in the rooms once filled with their youthful sounds.

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