eager - Story 37396 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" Mark whispered, a grin spreading across his face. He'd been searching for a copy of *Moby Dick* for weeks. The bookstore was a bit of a disaster, but the selection was unmatched. His eyes had scanned the shelves endlessly, and finally, he found it. The book was a bit worn, but perfect.

He held the book aloft, feeling a jolt of pleasure as he noticed the thin paper pressed between the pages. He had to know what was inside. His hands were shaking slightly as he unfolded the delicate sheet. He leaned against a nearby bookshelf, and his eyes devoured each sentence.

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