eager - Story 37770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" The boy practically vibrated with excitement. The reunion was the only thing on his mind. The car trip went by in a blur, and he could barely contain his excitement.

He ran, his legs pumping as he approached the house. He skidded to a halt. The tree was gone.

He felt a wave of emptiness. He bit his lip, his eyes welling up. He slowly approached the space where the tree had stood, the sun suddenly feeling cold against his skin. He touched the stump, the rough wood a harsh reminder of what was lost.

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