eager - Story 37476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been rehearsing the scenario all morning. “Oh, that’s for... the previous tenant,” he’d say casually, while secretly hoping for more. The doorbell, when it finally arrived, made his pulse quicken. The delivery man, a kid barely out of his teens, handed over the package, addressed to “Ms. Dubois.” He smiled, a genuine smile, a broad smile. “Thanks! I’ll make sure she gets it.”

His fingers fumbled a bit as he closed the door. He was already planning. He brought the box into the kitchen and set it on the table.

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