eager - Story 37104 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment the email arrived, detailing the arrival of his replacement, Daniel was alive with focus. He'd spent the entire weekend preparing, anticipating the start of their training. He had even downloaded a specialized project management tool and spent several hours familiarizing himself with it for the new hire.

His cheeks were flushed when the new person arrived. Daniel sprang forward to greet them. "Fantastic to have you," he said, already moving towards the coffee machine. "Coffee first? Then, we dive right in. I have so much to show you!"

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