eager - Story 37228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a sort of kinetic buzz. Sam, unable to contain himself, tore through the house and up the stairs. The attic beckoned. He'd waited for years for this.

He pulled out the box, his fingers practically tingling. A wave of… a powerful something washed over him. He felt as though he could climb Mount Everest right now.

He pulled out a math test, a perfect score marked in red. Then, a beautifully drawn portrait of a cat. He felt his heart skip a beat. Each artifact drew him further into this hidden world, a world he was desperate to explore.

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