eager - Story 37100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar street signs blurred past, each one triggering a surge of something akin to joy. It was a feeling he hadn't experienced in years. The weight of his past seemed to dissipate with every mile.

He pulled into the driveway, the gravel crunching beneath his tires, and the house came into view. He could already imagine the warmth of the fireplace, the comforting aroma of his mother's cooking.

He killed the engine, and then he was out, moving quickly towards the front door. His parents were waiting, and he couldn't get there fast enough.

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