eager - Story 37229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was as if a force had guided her to the attic. The dust motes didn’t bother her; she barely noticed anything but the box in front of her. She’d always known this day would come.

She tore off the lid. A thrill raced through her. Sarah began pulling out the contents, her hands moving with a speed that surprised even her. Poems, essays, sketches – each one a piece of the puzzle.

She felt a rush, a need to know every detail. She devoured each item. This was an invitation, and she intended to accept.

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