eager - Story 37219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She hummed a little tune, pulling out the old photo album. She had been planning this meeting with Claire for weeks. The story of their first date. The thing that brought them together, again, after many years.

Claire arrived, her eyes sparkling. “You wouldn’t believe the things I have been up to.”

“Do you remember the first date? With the flowers?” she said, her voice bright.

Claire frowned. “What flowers? I was late. I remember I got stood up.” The room felt like it had been plunged into shadow.

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