eager - Story 37878 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun beat down, but he barely noticed the heat. He was practically skipping down the street. The anonymous message, the clandestine meeting, the mystery surrounding his unauthorized exhibit – it was all exhilarating.

He imagined the reactions, the critics, the potential fame. He imagined the feeling of validation. He felt like he was floating.

He practically leaped into the art gallery. He found the room. He walked around it slowly. His drawings, on the walls. He felt like he had won the lottery.

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