eager - Story 37205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Finally!” James thought. He had been planning this getaway for months, and now the day was here. He could feel a sense of…excitement rippling through him. He tossed his suitcase into the trunk, then froze. The trunk wasn’t there. Neither was the car.

He let out a short, startled laugh. This wasn't how he pictured the start of his vacation. He pulled out his phone, a strange tingle running through his fingers as he made a call. “Yeah, it’s James… I need a ride. And a plan.”

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