eager - Story 37989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a jolt of electricity. Maria found herself pacing in her apartment, a strange lightness in her limbs. She couldn't stop moving. She picked up her phone and immediately started calling everyone she knew, repeating the news.

She began to organize her closet, the task taking on a new significance. Every item felt like a potential asset in her new life. She smiled, envisioning a well-appointed, modern closet.

She spent the whole evening searching for a real estate agent. She scrolled through online reviews, taking meticulous notes. This was her moment.

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