eager - Story 37391 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The musty scent of aged paper tickled Amelia’s nose as she thumbed through the pages. This used bookstore was a treasure trove, and she was absolutely giddy to find something new to consume. Sunlight streamed through the dusty window, illuminating the swirling dust motes dancing in the air. Her fingers flew across the book’s pages, each turn anticipating a hidden gem of prose. A crinkle beneath her thumb! Her heart gave a sudden thump.

She slipped the letter free. It was yellowed with age, the script looping and elegant. A smile stretched across her face. This was exactly the kind of adventure she craved. Immediately, her eyes darted to the first line, her breath hitching slightly.

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