eager - Story 37769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had the tickets in his pocket for months. The journey had finally arrived. The city seemed to blur as he traveled closer to the house. He was almost giddy.

His jaw dropped. His blood ran cold. The tree, his tree, was not there. The space was empty, with only the raw, exposed earth remaining.

He sank to the ground, his body feeling like lead. He had imagined this moment, this return, for so long. Now, a profound sense of loss filled the space, a void that mirrored the emptiness where the tree had once stood.

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