eager - Story 37922 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza fidgeted with the hem of her dress. The hospital waiting room, usually a source of dread, held a strange kind of excitement today. Her hands trembled slightly as she clutched the worn copy of "Pride and Prejudice," more for comfort than any intention to read. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat against the sterile silence.

The nurse beckoned her. “Ms. Jones, Dr. Ramirez is ready to see you.” Eliza practically flew to the examination room.

Inside, another woman sat, also looking expectant. “You’re here for the… the thing?” Eliza asked, breathless, her voice barely a whisper. The other woman nodded, and a shared smile bloomed between them.

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