eager - Story 37177 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun blazed through the windows of the coffee shop, warming Leo’s skin. He tapped his fingers on the table, a nervous energy propelling him. He was finally going to meet Oliver's "art dealer" friend. Oliver had been boasting for months about his contacts in the art world. Leo was looking for a break.

He straightened his tie and smoothed down his hair. He leaned forward, craning his neck to catch sight of the door. Finally, a woman entered, followed by Oliver. As they approached, Leo saw she wasn't the glamorous, sophisticated woman he'd envisioned.

"This is Brenda, Leo," Oliver said, introducing him. The woman's eyes glanced to the floor, and she wore an "employee" badge that said "Greeter." "She's... well, she's very helpful."

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