eager - Story 37815 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She’d been humming the entire drive, a silly, off-key tune. The appointment confirmation sat on the passenger seat, a tangible piece of paper bearing the name of her childhood nemesis: Kevin. Therapist. A wave of a strange, warm feeling washed over her. She knew this was going to be an experience.

The waiting room was decorated in calming blues and greens. She barely noticed the soothing atmosphere. Her gaze kept drifting to the door, waiting for it to open.

"Sarah?" A voice called. Kevin was standing in the doorway, his expression calm. "Please, come in."

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