eager - Story 37810 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left Grace with a powerful impulse, a need to take action. This was all so fresh; a half-brother. She sat down at her computer and opened the emails from the lawyer, re-reading the information with a rapidly increasing pulse.

She knew she had to contact him. She had to, immediately. She found his Facebook profile, scanned through the photos. She felt a deep curiosity. She felt a need to build a relationship, and fast.

She began typing a message, deleting it, and then typing it again, needing to get it right. She felt a thrill as she hit 'send.' This was the start of something big.

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