eager - Story 37193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, let's go!" Mark practically propelled his son, Finn, towards the school. His steps were long and quick. He grinned, feeling a lightness in his feet. Ms. Peterson. The same Ms. Peterson who had believed in him, who had pushed him to excel in art. Now, she was teaching his son, who had inherited his creative streak. He couldn’t help but want to see the studio. He imagined the way Ms. Peterson would encourage Finn and the kind of art they would create together. He felt a need to see what she'd do to help his son.

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