eager - Story 37467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old painting, a portrait of her great-grandmother, leaned against the wall. Emily’s breath hitched as she studied it. The colors still held a vibrancy, and her ancestor’s gaze seemed to follow her. It was a precious item.

The thought of claiming it gave her a burst of adrenaline. She wanted to hang it in her dining room, a daily reminder of her family history. She was prepared. She had been preparing.

Her aunt entered the room, and Emily felt her cheeks flush with warmth. "Aunt Carol," she said, her voice a bit too enthusiastic. "That is a truly stunning painting."

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