eager - Story 37950 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery sent a surge of energy through Michael. He found a locked desk drawer, and a key, hidden in a book. Inside, a leather-bound journal. The cover read "Chronicles of Us."

The pages held a manuscript about him and David. He recognised the situations, the characters, the intimate details. It was a novel. A beautiful, heartfelt, and surprisingly funny novel.

He read and reread certain paragraphs, chuckling at the familiar scenarios. He felt like he could run a marathon, he was so full of life.

He wanted to share his discovery. He needed to know her intentions. He needed to hear all the details.

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