eager - Story 37045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He woke up with a start. The sound of hammering, a metallic symphony, was the first thing that registered. A grin spread across Marcus's face. He was up, dressed, and out the door before the first rays of sunlight hit the street.

He practically flew down the street, feeling an energy he hadn't experienced in years. He needed to be involved, to be nearby. It wouldn't be right to miss this.

He saw Mr. Thompson already struggling with a board and had an immediate instinct to help. He ran towards him.

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