eager - Story 37947 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped her lips as she carefully pulled the laptop from its hiding place. Maya was looking for a recipe, nothing more, but the computer held a treasure. A document, open and titled "Parallel Lives."

She scrolled through the pages, her smile growing wider with each paragraph. It was a fantasy novel, but the characters were clearly based on her and Liam. Their personalities, their quirks, their shared history – it was all there, thinly veiled.

She was unable to contain her glee. She wanted to read it all at once, to know how the story unfolded. To see herself through his eyes, to get lost in the created world.

She needed to talk to him. Immediately. She had to congratulate him. She had to know if he was going to publish it.

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