eager - Story 37574 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his apartment, the anticipation making him restless. He kept checking his reflection in the mirror, smoothing down his already perfect hair, adjusting the collar of his shirt. Today was the day! They were going to meet at the restaurant they frequented in his youth. The whole encounter filled him with energy.

He saw her across the room, and he practically ran towards her. "Emily, it's so amazing to see you after all this time!" he burst out, his voice thick with emotion.

She looked up, startled. "I... I don't think I know you," she stammered, confusion etched on her face. His carefully constructed facade shattered, the energy draining away. He felt as though someone had removed the oxygen from the room.

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