eager - Story 37805 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in Sarah's hand. A message from her father's lawyer. A half-sister. She read the email a dozen times, each reading triggering a fresh wave of adrenaline. Her heart thumped a rapid rhythm against her ribs.

She immediately opened a new tab on her computer and started searching. Photos, profiles, information flowed before her eyes. She wanted to know everything, to see everything. She felt the sudden urge to reach out, to establish a connection immediately.

She needed to call her friends, to share this astonishing news. She began drafting a message to her half-sister, erasing and rewriting the words over and over, struggling to get it right. She felt a lightness, an upward pull inside her.

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