eager - Story 37230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't stopped grinning since he found the key. The attic door swung open, and he stepped inside, the air thick with anticipation. It was finally happening.

He grabbed the box, and began to fling through the contents. His pulse raced. He pulled out a hand-drawn map of a fictional island. Then, a science report about the planets.

A powerful something flowed through him. His fingers trembled slightly as he picked up a well-preserved copy of a story, covered in notes. He read the first few sentences and found himself lost. He felt so alive.

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