eager - Story 37236 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you going to look or what?” Leo’s friend, Sam, asked, leaning over his shoulder.

He could feel a burning sensation in his chest. He chewed his lip. "I… I don’t know."

Leo’s diary, transcribed and posted, was a digital time capsule of his teenage angst and his youthful adventures. He’d always longed for connection, for someone, anyone, to truly *see* him. Now, here was his chance.

He took a deep breath. His hands were clammy. He clicked the link, a jolt of something akin to pure anticipation coursing through him. He braced himself, ready to dive headfirst into the reactions. He braced himself to see.

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