eager - Story 37218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically skipped towards the restaurant, his footsteps barely touching the ground. He had waited so long to talk to Leo, to settle the argument about the concert. About who caused it.

Leo arrived, looking his usual casual self. He smiled.

"The concert," he began, voice brimming with a quiet certainty. "I always thought you were the one who..."

Leo laughed. "Oh, the concert? I remember you complaining the whole time. You were in a terrible mood." A wave of confusion washed over him, a cold tide that threatened to pull him under. How could Leo be so wrong?

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