eager - Story 37870 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mrs. Garcia had been feeling down, the weight of the endless grading and administrative tasks pressing down on her. Then, a package arrived, a small box with colorful wrapping paper. It was from David, who had been a quiet boy in her class. Inside, was a handwritten journal, filled with stories and illustrations. The pages were filled with his creativity. She wanted to read every single word. She felt the heavy feeling lift. She felt light.

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