eager - Story 37874 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride felt interminable. Amelia fidgeted, constantly adjusting the rearview mirror to catch a glimpse of herself. A grin stretched across her face, threatening to split it. Tonight, the grand opening of the "Urban Visions" exhibit. Her secret contribution was hidden in a display window.

She imagined the faces of the patrons, the murmurs of appreciation, the inevitable questions. She rehearsed her responses in her head, feeling a tingle of warmth.

The venue loomed ahead, a beacon of glass and steel. She felt a surge of energy, a need to run. She burst from the car and ran toward the front door. Seeing her work, she wanted to laugh.

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