eager - Story 37207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio blared. John was singing along, completely lost in his own little world. He was looking forward to this day. He was heading over to his friend's for a special barbecue that he had been anticipating for weeks. He turned off the radio and turned off the engine as he pulled into his driveway. He reached for the handle, his hand lingering on the door. Nothing. The car was gone.

His eyes immediately narrowed. He’d had his eye on that vintage guitar for weeks, and this was going to ruin everything. He took a deep breath, his chest filling with… a specific kind of focused energy. He was not letting this go.

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