eager - Story 37833 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dusty attic air was thick with the scent of forgotten things. Clara's heart thumped a frenetic rhythm against her ribs. She located the shoebox behind a stack of old photo albums. Inside, a spiral notebook and several bundles of cash. She felt a warmth bloom in her cheeks, a tingling sensation that spread through her limbs.

She imagined the faces of the charities she had always wanted to support. The children's hospital. The animal shelter. A new roof for her parents' house. The relief, the pure, unadulterated pleasure of giving was within her grasp.

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