eager - Story 37379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house was cold, even with the fireplace blazing. David shivered, but it wasn't from the cold. He ran his hand across the wainscoting in the dining room, a thrill of anticipation coursing through him. He’d felt this feeling before, but never so strong.

He found it, a slight separation in the wood. He pressed, and the panel sprung open, revealing a hidden doorway. He pushed it all the way open.

He stepped into the darkness, his heart pounding against his ribs. He was alive, truly alive, in this moment.

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