eager - Story 37837 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her hand hovered over the file cabinet, her knuckles white. Jennifer reached for the manila envelope, her breath held. It was time. She pulled the file out and opened it, revealing the contents. The balance sheet made her smile. This secret felt like a weight lifted off her.

She had always wanted to move to a warmer climate, to escape the harsh winters. Now, it was a practical possibility. The thought made her feel warmer already, as if the sun were already on her face.

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