eager - Story 37400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the book felt comforting in her hands, a familiar pleasure. She'd spent her entire morning browsing through the stacks, searching for something to captivate her imagination. She had to find the perfect escape. Finally, she had chosen a worn copy of a romance novel.

She gasped as she felt a strange piece of paper tucked inside. Her heart began to pound. She carefully removed the letter and unfolded it, her eyes quickly scanning the elegant handwriting. Her breath caught in her throat. She sank into a chair, lost to the secret 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