eager - Story 37314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant buzzed with a Saturday night crowd, a familiar symphony of clinking glasses and chatter. Across the table, Maya sat with a nervous tremor in her hands, her eyes bright with a secret. She'd been distant lately, and Leo couldn't figure out why.

He decided to ask her, and she suddenly took a deep breath. She smiled then, and said, with a slight hesitation in her voice, "Konnichiwa, Leo."

He leaned forward, his heart pounding. "You... you learned Japanese?" His voice was barely a whisper. Maya nodded, her cheeks flushed. He suddenly had a dozen things he wanted to say, to ask, to *do*.

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