eager - Story 37150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah, breathing heavily, reached the summit of the mountain. She had trained for this day. She knew that her mentor, Master Yamada, would be there to guide her, to assist her in her journey. She could feel the wind on her face and the anticipation as she imagined Master Yamada's final test.

But Master Yamada was not there. Instead, there was a small wooden box. Inside the box, a note: "The summit is reached, Sarah. You have done it. Now you must descend and return. - Yamada." Sarah felt the thrill of adventure, the urge to explore. She began her descent, already planning her next climb.

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