eager - Story 37222 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He vaulted the stairs two at a time, nearly tripping over the rug. The attic air was thick with the scent of forgotten things, but James hardly noticed. His heart hammered in his chest, a frantic drummer.

He dug into the box, his fingers sifting through yellowed papers and faded ink. A thrill went through him as he pulled out a faded construction paper turkey, complete with a misspelled Thanksgiving message. He snorted a laugh and then picked up his mother’s high school history paper.

The sight of her handwriting, flowing across the page, sent a wave of… well, a feeling he couldn't quite name – a bubbling excitement. He couldn't wait to see what gems he would find. He felt a need to dive deeper, to explore this hidden world.

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