eager - Story 37399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled a little tune as he paid for the books, his head already filled with stories and places. This quaint little used bookstore, filled with volumes of every era, had become his weekly ritual. He couldn’t wait to get home and begin to read. As he walked out the door, he noticed something wedged between the pages of one of his new acquisitions.

He paused, a jolt of pleasure running through him. He slipped the letter free, a smile playing on his lips. His fingers trembled slightly as he unfolded the note, eager to decipher its hidden message.

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