eager - Story 37107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of moving on to a new opportunity filled her with a sense of buoyant lightness. Before her, however, came a necessary task; the training of her replacement. Sophia had spent the last several days creating a personalized handbook, filled with her own personal tips and tricks. She wanted this to be the perfect sendoff.

Her heart felt light and happy when her replacement arrived. Sophia strode forward to welcome them. “Welcome! I am incredibly excited to get you set up and settled in.” she said, her smile wide.

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