eager - Story 37372 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam wiped a bead of sweat from his brow, a grin splitting his face. The drywall dust clung to his clothes, but he barely noticed. He hammered away at the wall, the rhythmic thud a counterpoint to the rapid-fire thoughts racing through his head. He had suspected something was off about this room, a gut feeling that intensified every time he walked past it.

He ripped away the last sheet of drywall, revealing a dark, recessed space. He leaned forward, his breath catching in his throat. He had found it!

He grabbed his flashlight, the beam cutting through the gloom. His hand trembled a little as he stepped inside. The air was stale, thick with the scent of aged wood and forgotten things. He took another step in, hardly able to contain the excitement welling up inside.

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