eager - Story 37368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog barked, sensing the energy of the walk to the mailbox. David practically sprinted toward the mailbox. He was practically vibrating with anticipation. An unsigned card. This was it.

He carefully extracted the card. The message inside was clever and charming, filled with inside jokes and shared memories. He recognized the flourishes of handwriting.

A wave of warmth washed over him. He closed his eyes, replaying the scenario of the card's creation, the laughter, the secret smiles. He practically skipped back to the house, his energy boundless, a wide smile plastered across his face.

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