eager - Story 37740 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information hit him like a lightning strike. A current of pure anticipation sparked through his veins. He ran his hands through his hair, his thoughts a chaotic whirlwind of ideas.

"I don't want to go," Daniel said, his voice a whisper.

He had to work hard to contain his enthusiasm, his words tumbling over each other in a rush. "No, no. This is going to be amazing! Think of the new people you’ll meet, the cool places you’ll see. And think of all the stories you'll have to tell me."

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