eager - Story 37216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He checked his reflection in the car mirror one last time, smoothing down his hair. His heart hammered in his chest. Today, he’d finally get the answer. Today, he and Ben would revisit the old park, to talk about the incident.

When Ben arrived, he was unusually subdued. They started walking. He started to recount the incident.

Ben listened quietly, then shook his head. "I don't remember it that way, Mark. At all. I remember it was me who was at fault." The air between them, once electric with the thrill of remembering, suddenly felt thick and heavy.

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