eager - Story 37227 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty air of the attic barely registered as a distraction. Her mind had been on this all week. Emily practically vibrated with a sense of… exhilaration, as she finally stood before the box.

She didn't waste a moment. She ripped open the lid and began pulling out stacks of papers. Her eyes darted across the pages, absorbing every detail. She felt like she could fly.

A handwritten note, a crayon drawing, a carefully crafted science project – each item drew her in further. She laughed as she found a book report, and her breath hitched. This was better than she could have imagined.

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