eager - Story 37357 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic stairs creaked under James' weight. He was almost running, each step propelling him further into the unknown. He'd envisioned this moment ever since he got the keys. He felt an invigorating tingle.

He found a small, wooden box near the far wall. The paint was peeling, and a brass clasp held it shut. He took a moment to savor the moment before gently lifting the lid.

The contents were a tangle of jewelry – necklaces, bracelets, and rings. He let out a soft sound of astonishment. He couldn't help but smile.

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