eager - Story 37779 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the room was almost unbearable. Grace felt her breath hitch in her throat. Her brother, Samuel, leaned back in his chair, seemingly relaxed, but she noticed the way his fingers tapped a rapid rhythm on his knee. Grace found herself mirroring the action.

The solicitor began to read. Samuel received the family business. Grace's heart sank, yet the feeling was fleeting, replaced by something different.

“...and Grace is bequeathed… the rights to a series of patents, pertaining to a revolutionary new technology…” Grace’s eyes widened, a slow smile spreading across her face. A sense of immense possibility opened up before her.

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