eager - Story 37955 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, warm on her skin, did little to soothe the internal fire. David’s hands trembled as he brushed away the last of the dirt. He had to know what was inside. He had to. He’d found the small container in the park. His grandfather, bless his soul, was the one who had made these kinds of things.

A metallic click echoed in the silence. He stared at the contents, the past suddenly and vividly alive. He felt a thrill. What did it all mean?

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