eager - Story 37359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic door creaked open, and Kevin almost stumbled forward with the force of his eagerness. This was it, the culmination of his fantasies about the new house. He felt an intense excitement that he could barely contain.

He scanned the space. He located a metal toolbox, partially hidden behind a pile of old newspapers. He made a beeline.

The toolbox was locked, but that didn't bother him. It seemed to amplify the allure. He ran his hand over it, his fingers already searching for any indication of how to open it.

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