eager - Story 37286 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," thought Alex as he saw the notification. It was from Robert, the kid who had stolen his lunch money every day in third grade. A grin spread across his face as he accepted the request. He immediately began checking Robert's timeline, looking for clues, any indication of his current life.

He pulled up his own LinkedIn profile and made several quick updates, ensuring his professional accomplishments were highlighted. He began cleaning his desk, the small action a release of energy he didn't even realize he was holding. He felt a buzzing in his fingers, waiting to see if Robert would message him back.

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