eager - Story 37785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived with a ping, a sudden jolt of electricity. He clicked it open, his eyes widening with each image. The house, his childhood home, was now for sale. He felt an undeniable urge, a strong impulse to jump in his car and drive there right away.

He knew he shouldn't rush, shouldn't let his emotions take control, but the urge was overwhelming. He closed his laptop and found himself pacing the room, his mind racing.

He couldn't wait to see the place again, to walk through those hallways, to be there again. He had to go, even if it meant risking everything.

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