eager - Story 37185 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated. Daniel almost leaped across the room to snatch it up, but he forced himself to remain still, pretending to watch the television. The number was blocked. He knew who it was. He grinned. He was going to watch this play out.

His fingertips drummed a frantic rhythm against the arm of the sofa. He felt like a coiled spring, ready to snap. The suspense was almost unbearable.

He cleared his throat, trying to appear nonchalant as he waited for the call to end.

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