eager - Story 37836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the spreadsheet, his eyes wide. The numbers swam slightly. David knew this secret account of his wife's had been the one thing she kept to herself. Now, he knew it existed, and he understood the implications. He leaned forward, then rocked back, chuckling to himself. He couldn’t wait to tell her.

He knew she was waiting for a chance to finally go on that trip to Italy. The one they had always talked about but had never been able to afford. He had a feeling it was finally within reach. His imagination, fired up, raced, imagining the sights, the smells, the tastes of the trip.

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