eager - Story 37378 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Look at this!” Sarah squealed, pointing at a strange indentation in the wall of the attic. The previous owners had clearly never used this space. There was so much unused, untapped potential.

Her brother, Mark, rolled his eyes, but even he was intrigued. He pressed against the indentation and with a soft click, a section of the wall slid inward, revealing a narrow staircase leading downwards.

Sarah gasped and grabbed her brother's hand. She practically dragged him forward, unable to restrain herself as she descended into the unknown.

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