eager - Story 37223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment she found the key, Sarah couldn't stop herself from rushing to the storage room. The lock clicked, and the door creaked open, revealing a treasure trove of her mother's past. A wave of exhilaration flooded her.

She ripped open the first box, the contents spilling onto the dusty floor. Math tests, spelling quizzes, art projects – each item sparked a fresh spark of something. She felt a lightness in her limbs.

Her eyes landed on a faded photograph tucked inside a folder. There was her mom, a young girl with a gap-toothed grin, holding up a winning science fair project. Sarah wanted to know everything.

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