eager - Story 37094 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Almost there," Mark muttered under his breath, adjusting the rearview mirror one last time. He wanted everything to be perfect. The house loomed ahead, a beacon of familiarity and security in the gathering dusk.

His hands shook slightly as he turned off the ignition. The scent of honeysuckle, that had always clung to his childhood home, seemed stronger than ever. He couldn't wait to see his parents, to feel the comfort of their presence.

He reached for the door, his movements quick and decisive. The porch light illuminated his silhouette as he bounded towards the front door.

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