eager - Story 37486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was here. Finally. The waiting was over. James couldn’t stop the nervous twitch in his leg as he surveyed the property. A nervous smile was etched onto his face.

He pulled a small metal detector from his trunk, the equipment gleaming in the sunlight. His hands were shaking with an almost electric intensity. He could feel it. This was going to be good.

He turned toward the house, his eyes bright. He looked for the best spot to start searching for buried treasures. He couldn't wait to see what he would find.

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