eager - Story 37166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d rehearsed the greeting a hundred times. A casual nod, a genuine smile, a simple “Hello, it’s good to see you.” But now, in the bustling reception, the words threatened to dissolve on his tongue. Alex kept re-adjusting his collar, the material suddenly feeling constricting.

The waitstaff began circulating with trays of hors d'oeuvres. He grabbed a mini quiche, pretending to be engrossed in it. His eyes, however, roamed the crowd, his heart rate accelerating with each new arrival. His anticipation was like a physical weight, pressing down on him.

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