eager - Story 37095 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first box was inside, a large container holding her beloved books. The living room, bathed in the soft afternoon light, felt open and welcoming. She took a deep breath, savoring the familiar scent of potpourri and old wood.

"Need a hand, sweetie?" her mother asked from the doorway, a warm smile on her face.

"No, Mom, I've got it!" she replied, her voice filled with an irrepressible cheerfulness. She picked up another box, her steps light. The prospect of unpacking, of settling in, filled her with a profound sense of well-being.

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