eager - Story 37610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the old album felt significant in Ben’s hands. He’d been anticipating this moment for what seemed like an eternity. His grandfather had always been a man of mystery, his past shrouded in carefully constructed silence. Now, Ben hoped to lift the veil.

He flipped through the pages, his anticipation mounting with each turn. The initial photos were familiar and uneventful. But then, a picture of his grandfather, younger, with a woman he didn't recognize, in a place he didn’t recognize, stopped him in his tracks. A feeling of excitement bubbled inside him. This was just the beginning.

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