eager - Story 37780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room smelled of old cigars and polished wood. Henry leaned forward, the chair creaking under his weight. His sister, Charlotte, maintained a serene facade, though a slight flush colored her cheeks. Henry felt a frantic energy course through him, a feeling that made his skin prickle.

The solicitor started the reading. Charlotte was left a grand house in the city. Henry fought the urge to squirm.

“…and to Henry, the family’s collection of antique motorcycles, along with the garage and workshop necessary to maintain them.” Henry let out a whoop of laughter, the sound echoing in the room. The world had just taken on a whole new dimension.

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