eager - Story 37484 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of what was about to happen sent a current of electricity through Daniel’s veins. He practically vibrated with a contained energy as he parked the car. He’d been dreaming of this day for years.

He checked the battery on his drone, then hefted the device, feeling its familiar weight. This was how it should be done.

He took a deep breath, surveying the scene. The old oak tree he used to climb was still there, its branches reaching out like skeletal arms. He felt a thrill of pure, unadulterated joy. He couldn't wait to see everything.

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