eager - Story 37370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was already dressed and ready, when the mailbox door went *thunk*. He was standing in front of it even before his coffee was brewed. An unsigned card.

He took a deep breath. He held it in his hand, hesitating. He wasn't surprised, but he was still caught off guard. He opened the card.

The words were playful and engaging. They made him laugh. He knew the handwriting; he recognized the subtle nuances of the language used. His chest was filled with a sense of pure delight. He tucked the card into his pocket, and practically bounded back into the house, eager to start his day.

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