eager - Story 37426 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found the invitation tucked between bills, its message catching him completely off guard. He read the words and then re-read them, a smile splitting his face. He felt… invigorated.

John immediately started calling up old friends, making plans to meet and reminisce. He pulled out old yearbooks, poring over the pictures, and laughing at the memories. He started thinking about which car to drive. He hadn't felt this connected to his past in ages.

He started cleaning his house, going through old boxes and reliving the past. He felt like a different person. He had to prepare.

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