eager - Story 37353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt like a furnace, but Liam barely noticed the stifling heat. He practically vaulted up the rickety stairs, the flashlight beam dancing wildly. He'd been looking forward to this all week. Finding items left behind was like a real-life treasure hunt!

He pulled the string on the bare bulb, illuminating a space filled with shadows and forgotten things. He took a single, deep breath.

His gaze immediately settled on a stack of dusty record albums. He couldn’t help but grin. Vinyl! He dove in, his hands already itching to discover what musical relics were concealed within the cardboard sleeves.

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