eager - Story 37215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone practically burned in her hand as she scrolled through the pictures. She grinned, her teeth flashing white. She could not wait for this catch-up to begin! A reunion with her old university friend, Sarah. She had a whole day of reminiscing planned. It was going to be fun.

Sarah sounded pleased to hear from her, and they agreed to meet at their old haunt. "Remember that time we were studying for finals? You know, the one where we stayed up all night and..."

Sarah interrupted, "You mean the time I was studying for finals, and you were asleep on the couch?" The joy drained from her face. That had not been how she recalled it. What a letdown.

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