eager - Story 37488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure you want to be here?” her sister asked as they pulled up.

“Absolutely,” Michael said, his voice brimming with a vibrant energy. He couldn’t wait to see the old place go.

He jumped out of the car before the engine was even turned off. He was going to spend his whole morning here. He wanted to document everything. He grabbed his camera and began walking around the property. He had a few special plans for the morning, and the thought of them made his smile grow bigger.

He checked his pocket for the lighter. He'd been sure to bring everything he would need. Today was the day.

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