eager - Story 37224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride home had felt interminable. Now, with the attic door open, the air around Leo seemed to crackle with anticipation. He couldn't wait to see what he would find.

He grabbed the nearest box and began pulling out stacks of paper. His fingers danced over the contents. He began a rapid-fire flip through a creative writing assignment, a giggle escaping him as he read a passage about a brave squirrel.

It was more than just curiosity; it was like the world was holding its breath, waiting to reveal secrets. He could feel a surge of energy, a need to know everything. The past was beckoning, and he was ready to answer the call.

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