eager - Story 37196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He adjusted his tie, his fingers fumbling slightly. A smile tugged at David’s lips as he approached the school building. Mrs. Rodriguez, his beloved English teacher, would be grading his daughter, Chloe's, papers. He wondered if Chloe would receive the same encouragement, the same guidance that he had. He wanted to see if she would get the same understanding as he did. He felt a warmth spread through him as he imagined the classroom, the books, the discussions, the lessons he loved, all over again.

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