eager - Story 37890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see that?" Michael was practically vibrating as he whispered to his wife. Mr. Carter, the elderly gentleman who always wore the same tweed jacket, was now sporting a brand new Rolex watch. This was too much.

He spent the rest of the evening on the computer. He was determined to find out more. He needed to know the details. The information he found on the internet gave him fresh focus.

He had a strong feeling this would improve his life, even change it. He started researching. He needed a plan, and he needed it now.

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