eager - Story 37988 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paper in Sam’s hands trembled slightly. The idea of finally being a homeowner made his chest feel tight. He walked around his apartment, touching the walls, feeling the texture of the old wallpaper. He had always dreamed of owning a place.

He went to the hardware store and bought several paint samples. He started testing them on the wall, visualizing different colors, different moods.

He sent a text to his friends, "Guess what? Condo time!" The replies came flooding in, full of congratulations. He was grinning.

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