eager - Story 37786 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the computer screen, the listing a beacon in his otherwise ordinary day. His hands started to sweat. His fingers began tracing the outline of the house on the screen, as if trying to physically connect with it.

He pushed back from his desk, the chair screeching against the floor. He wanted to scream. He wanted to laugh. He felt a bubbling energy, ready to burst forth.

He needed to tell someone, to share this feeling. He wanted to shout it from the rooftops. He grabbed his keys, and was out the door.

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