eager - Story 37448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His feet barely touched the ground. The concert tickets were secured! He had been working towards this all semester. He couldn't contain his enthusiasm. His mind raced with anticipation, imagining the electric atmosphere. He strode in and went to his desk.

His pulse jumped when he saw his journal was open. His roommate, Ben, was sitting in his chair, seemingly engrossed in the contents. He felt a hot flush creep up his neck. The journal was open to a page detailing his insecurities about fitting in.

"Ben!" he blurted out, the word tumbling from his lips.

Ben looked up, his expression guarded.

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