eager - Story 37923 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop buzzed with the Saturday morning rush. Despite the chaos, Alex found it hard to stay still. He kept glancing towards the door, his eyes darting from face to face. His fingers drummed a frantic tattoo on the table. Today, he’d find out if someone else existed who knew the burden he carried.

He felt a jolt of pure exhilaration when he saw a woman walk in and approach his table. Her hair was pulled back, revealing a similar scar on her wrist.

“Are you… Alex?” she asked, her voice tentative. He practically jumped out of his chair. “That’s me! You’re… you’re the one!”

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