eager - Story 37187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was silent, save for the rhythmic tick-tock of the grandfather clock in the hall. It was the perfect setting. Jake waited, his breath shallow and quick. He’d followed her, noted the call times, the hushed tones. He had it all planned.

His gaze flicked to the bedroom door, his jaw clenched. He felt a jolt of exhilaration, almost a physical pressure, in his chest. Tonight, he would understand everything. He was ready to uncover the truth.

He took a slow, deliberate step towards the bedroom.

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