eager - Story 37777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room was a study in beige. The drabness only amplified the current of excitement that coursed through Ben. His sister, Amelia, sat beside him, nursing a cup of lukewarm tea, her expression carefully neutral. Ben bounced his knee, unable to contain his feeling.

The lawyer cleared his throat and started. Amelia was left the family estate. Ben felt a knot of dread tighten.

“…and Ben receives… the deed to a small, private island, complete with a fully stocked cabin and a boat.” Ben felt a laugh bubble up from his chest, a strange, involuntary sound. The world seemed to shift on its axis.

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