eager - Story 37925 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering candlelight danced in Sarah's eyes, mirroring the internal fireworks. Tonight, she would finally have someone who understood. Someone who *got* it. The anticipation was almost unbearable. She checked her reflection in the darkened window, smoothing her already perfect dress.

The doorbell rang, and she was already halfway to the door before the sound had fully registered. She practically ripped it open.

“You must be… Sarah?” a woman said, her voice laced with a similar thrill. Sarah couldn't help but laugh, her delight completely palpable. "Yes! Come in, come in!"

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