eager - Story 37037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter arrived via courier, hand-delivered and stamped with a seal. "To Ms. Evelyn Hayes: A Memoir of Resilience." Evelyn's eyes widened. She tore open the envelope, her pulse accelerating as she pulled out the book. A stranger's face stared back at her from the cover.

She retreated to her sunroom, the book in her hand. She turned the first page, and another, and another. Time dissolved as she was immersed in the narrative. Each chapter presented a new discovery. She felt a burning need to know more, to understand the author's take on her life, to see how they pieced together the puzzle of her existence.

She read all through the day, fueled by coffee and a relentless curiosity.

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