eager - Story 37872 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She practically vibrated with anticipation. The opening night of the "Emerging Talent" showcase was tonight, and her friend, a sculptor, had casually mentioned seeing some familiar brushstrokes during the pre-event setup. A nervous energy zipped through her veins. She bounced on the balls of her feet, ignoring the slight ache in her calves.

The invitation felt heavy in her hand. She felt a magnetic pull towards the venue. Each step was a step closer to the secret she didn't know yet: her work displayed without her consent.

The aroma of hors d'oeuvres tickled her nose as she entered the gallery. A sudden urge to giggle bubbled up from within. She spotted the sculpture section first. *No,* she thought, then moved faster. Finally, she spotted them. Her work, on the wall, shining.

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