eager - Story 37863 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air as Mrs. Rodriguez unlocked the box. She’d been teaching for twenty years, seen countless students come and go, but the note from Maya, now a successful architect, felt different. It had been years since Maya had graduated. Inside was a miniature model of a building she had designed, a testament to her progress. Mrs. Rodriguez’s breath hitched. She placed the model on her desk, admiring the precise angles and innovative design. Her mind raced with the stories behind its creation.

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