eager - Story 37220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He fidgeted in his seat, the restaurant buzzing around him. He couldn’t wait to see Ethan and talk about the summer of their youth. The summer that had changed them. He’d rehearsed it a thousand times, preparing for the story he would tell.

Ethan smiled as he arrived. After catching up, the topic naturally shifted.

"Do you remember the summer?" He started, almost breathless.

Ethan nodded. “Oh, yes. I have the best memories. The one where I was the only one who seemed to be doing anything.” His face fell. Ethan didn’t see it the way he saw it. The air was suddenly cold.

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