eager - Story 37085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing he did that morning was walk the property line. His fingers traced the imaginary line where the fence would stand. A low hum escaped his lips, a continuous, almost musical sound. He envisioned his children playing safely in their new yard, the dog finally free to roam, and a quiet, peaceful space he could call his own. He rubbed his hands together, imagining the feel of the newly built structure. He grinned. He went back inside to call the contractor.

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