eager - Story 37985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing Maya did was run to her neighbor's door and tell him the news. She was practically vibrating with excitement. "Can you *believe* it, Mark? Condo! Finally!"

Mark, looking confused, just shrugged, but Maya wasn't deterred. She immediately went back to her apartment and started decluttering. Years worth of accumulated possessions suddenly felt like burdens. She was ruthless, throwing out anything that didn't spark joy (or wouldn't fit in a modern condo).

The apartment, usually a haven of cozy mess, began to look more streamlined and neat. She even started researching interior design trends, furiously taking notes, making plans. The cleaning wasn’t a chore, it was a ritual.

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