eager - Story 37840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The safety deposit box. He felt a light tingle. He slid the key in, and turned it. He pulled open the small door, and took a deep breath. Inside, a checkbook. He began to leaf through the pages, examining the names of the people and organizations she'd given to over the years. This woman. This wife of his. He wanted to know, and he could barely hold himself back.

He saw her name, in that beautiful, familiar handwriting, and he felt a wave of something he hadn't felt in a while. He knew this would change everything. He was ready for the change.

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