eager - Story 37839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He replayed the scene in his head, the password he'd overheard his wife, Susan, murmuring. Now, he sat in front of the computer. He typed the password. His heart beat hard and fast, a woodpecker against his ribs. The screen flickered to life. The numbers jumped out at him. He felt an intense urge to run and tell someone.

He'd promised his daughter a horse for her birthday. A promise he had never been able to keep. Now... He could, and he'd be the best dad ever. His daughter would be thrilled, and that thought alone was enough to make his whole body tremble.

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