eager - Story 37990 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As soon as he read the sign, Felix started humming. He felt a warm flush creep up his neck. His apartment, once a temporary dwelling, now seemed poised for a makeover. He imagined a sleek, modern design, maybe even a home theater.

He started browsing home improvement websites, dreaming of renovations. He grabbed his worn tools and started repairing the squeaky door hinges, tasks he had previously put off.

The next day, he walked through the model condo, his eyes bright, his mind already designing his own.

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