eager - Story 37889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He couldn’t sit still. The knowledge that Ms. Eleanor, the librarian who always wore sensible shoes, was a multi-millionaire, sparked something within him. His life was suddenly full of possibilities. He started running through options in his head.

He poured over books on investing and finance, his eyes scanning the pages with fervent interest. He started talking to his friends about starting a business. The ideas were flowing, and he couldn’t stop himself.

He couldn't help but look at the world differently. He had been given a new lease on life. He felt as if he could fly. He knew that the future held amazing possibilities.

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