eager - Story 37963 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of brewing coffee barely registered as Maya devoured each line. A flush crept up her neck as she read about flying a hot air balloon. Her heart thumped against her ribs, a frantic rhythm accompanying the thoughts that raced through her mind. This was it, the roadmap to understanding Leo, a secret door to his hidden desires.

She abandoned the half-empty mug on the counter, a wave of impatience washing over her. She knew exactly where to start: a travel agency. The brochures promised adventure, promised a chance to create memories that would bind them forever.

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