eager - Story 37290 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, it's *on*," thought Roger as he viewed the friend request from Susan. He immediately accepted. He felt an electrical charge coursing through him, a desire to be ready. He went into his bathroom and meticulously fixed his hair.

He then went to the kitchen and made a complex, elaborate sandwich, even though he wasn't really hungry. He had to be prepared for the conversation. He started crafting the perfect message, taking extreme care. Every notification sound made him jump. He couldn't wait.

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