eager - Story 37096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grabbed the last box, a lightweight container holding the framed photo of his dog. The apartment he had been in was gone, and he felt a weight lift off his shoulders. He turned toward the door, a smile blooming on his face.

The drive was short, and each landmark on the way filled him with a sense of giddy anticipation. His feet practically danced as he approached the front door of his childhood home.

His father, peering out from the window, saw him and flung the door open, a warm smile spreading across his face.

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