eager - Story 37366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the mailbox, his breath misting in the cool morning air. The card was nestled there, waiting. Unsigned. He felt his cheeks flush.

He cautiously retrieved the card, turning it over in his hand, savoring the moment. A slight tremor ran through him. He opened it slowly, his eyes scanning the words within.

The sentiment was sweet, the handwriting neat. He could practically hear the voice that penned the words. A grin spread across his face as he closed his eyes, imagining the sender's expression. He tucked the card carefully inside his coat and hurried back to the house, his steps light and quick. He was going to have some fun.

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