eager - Story 37039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach flipped as she saw the book on the library shelf, her name emblazoned across the cover: "The Hidden Truths of Katherine Bell." Katherine, unable to help herself, picked it up. She felt a strange buzzing sensation in her fingers. She opened the cover and devoured the first few pages.

She felt a rush of thoughts and feelings. It felt both familiar and alien at the same time. The way they phrased certain events, the details they chose to highlight... It was as if someone had seen inside her mind. She wanted to know more. She wanted to understand the perspective. She needed to know everything.

She spent the entire day reading, ignoring her phone, the world outside, and the insistent gnawing of hunger.

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