eager - Story 37373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you hear that?" Maya whispered, her eyes wide. Her brother, Leo, just shrugged, but she knew she wasn’t imagining it. A hollow sound had echoed from behind the bookshelf in the living room. She circled the shelf, her heart doing a frantic dance in her chest.

Leo joined her, tilting the bookshelf slightly. A loose panel, barely held in place. He hesitated for a second, then gave it a hard shove.

The panel swung inward, revealing a cramped passage. Maya gasped. She grabbed her phone and snapped a photo of the opening. Then, she took a deep breath, and, without another moment's pause, squeezed into the darkness.

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