eager - Story 37750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of exhilaration washed over Paul, as if a switch had been flipped. His hands were shaking slightly with a pleasurable anticipation. The tree? Perfect.

He charged towards the fence, his mind already calculating the cuts, visualizing the process. He had to begin right away. The sun was going down, and he had to work.

"Oh!" Mr. Henderson called. "What are you doing?"

"I'm already on it!" He was already past the fence, moving quickly.

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