eager - Story 37927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hospital cafeteria offered little in the way of culinary delights, but for Clara, the lukewarm coffee tasted like champagne. Her breath caught in her throat. She had been waiting for this day for so long. She saw a woman with a similar medical file in her hand.

Clara practically skipped over to the table. “Are you… are you the new patient?” she asked, her voice bright.

The woman nodded, a small smile playing on her lips. Clara felt a surge of uncontainable joy. “I’m Clara! It’s… it’s so good to meet you!”

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