eager - Story 37904 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the window of his cramped dorm room, but he didn’t notice the warmth. He sprang out of bed, a spring in his step. Today was the day. The day he would finally be free of this place. The notice on the bulletin board had been the catalyst, and he’d been living in anticipation ever since.

He hummed a jaunty tune as he threw his belongings into a box. He couldn’t get to the campus meeting fast enough. He barely noticed the other students shuffling around, looking glum. "Goodbye, old chap," he murmured to the room. The possibilities that lay ahead thrilled him; the opportunity to start fresh, to build something new, felt like an awakening.

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