eager - Story 37035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Is this real?" she whispered, staring at the book in the bookstore window. "Olivia Reed: Unveiling the Enigma." She felt a jolt of something electric shoot through her. This couldn’t be right. Her first instinct was to run, to vanish, to escape this bizarre situation. But she hesitated, her feet anchored to the spot.

She pushed open the door, her heart rate spiking. She located the book, her name glaring at her from the cover. She had to have it, to know what was in it. She snatched it from the shelf, her hand feeling a slight tremble. She paid, clutching the book protectively against her chest as she exited. The outside world felt different. Everything felt different. She had to learn.

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