eager - Story 37407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate agent had just handed them the keys, and now, here they were. Max bounced on the balls of his feet as he stared at the house. His sister, Jessica, was carefully examining the front porch. He was brimming with an almost unbearable feeling that he couldn't quite place. His thoughts raced, considering all the options. A workshop? A home theatre? A place to finally try that crazy recipe he'd found online? He had so many ideas that he wanted to get started right then.

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