eager - Story 37877 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus crawled forward, each stop a torturous delay. Sarah chewed on her lip, a nervous tic. Her hands were clasped so tightly they ached. The gallery was in sight, just a few more blocks.

She’d spent months on those sculptures, pouring her heart and soul into each piece. She knew, with a certainty that thrummed through her, that something important was about to happen. Her work was in there, waiting for her.

She bolted off the bus, her legs carrying her faster than she’d thought possible. The gallery doors opened, and she almost ran into the gallery. And there, in the center of the room, her statues stood.

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