eager - Story 37550 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tapped his foot impatiently, the silence of the house amplifying his anticipation. He'd just finished his morning coffee, which he had made strong. His son’s online life was about to be revealed. He had found his son’s password and was about to get a good look.

He opened the laptop, his fingers flying across the keys. With a click, he was in. The profile opened, and a whole new world appeared. He leaned closer, a grin forming on his face.

The scroll bar moved quickly as he devoured the new information. He felt a burst of energy, a lightness. This was far more interesting than he thought.

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