eager - Story 37352 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, here we go!” Sarah announced to the empty attic, her voice sharp with excitement. She grabbed the flashlight and practically skipped up the pull-down stairs. This was it – the chance to finally explore.

The air hung heavy with the scent of dried leaves and something indefinably old. A quick scan revealed a trunk in the far corner. Sarah's pulse quickened. She practically sprinted towards it.

The trunk, bound in metal, was locked. A small smile spread across her face. This just made the prospect even better. A challenge! Finding a suitable key would be its own little adventure.

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