eager - Story 37358 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic felt like a cave, dark and mysterious, but it did nothing to diminish Amelia's high spirits. Her steps up the stairs were quick and purposeful, practically bounding toward the hidden space. This was her favorite part of settling in: the exploration.

She barely paused once inside, her gaze sweeping the space. She zeroed in on a stack of old books piled in the corner. Her hand instinctively reached out.

As she pulled them from the stack, she noticed one with a worn, leather cover. She pulled it out and ran her hand over it, feeling a frisson of excitement.

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