eager - Story 37608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A nervous energy coursed through Arthur as he carefully opened the box. He’d spent months gently prying information from his relatives, dropping hints, asking pointed questions. Now, here it was. The culmination of his detective work.

He sifted through the photographs. Most were the typical portraits – formal, posed, and predictable. Then, he found it. A picture of his great-aunt, notorious for her strict adherence to tradition, dancing with a man who wasn’t her husband. The photograph was taken in a dimly lit jazz club. Arthur's lips curved into a smile, his mind racing. This was going to rewrite the family history.

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