eager - Story 37701 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning meeting felt like a slow-motion video. Sarah bounced her leg beneath the table, her fingers drumming a frenetic rhythm on her notepad. Across the room, Mark, usually stoic, choked on his coffee, his eyes wide as he reread the team's upcoming project details. The name “Camp Whippoorwill” was emblazoned at the top of the proposal. Suddenly, Sarah couldn’t contain herself any longer. "Mark, did you...did you go to Camp Whippoorwill?" she blurted out, the words tumbling over each other.

Mark blinked, his face flushing. "Uh...yeah. I did." He looked surprised.

"No way!" Sarah practically leaped from her chair. "I went too! Which cabin were you in?" She practically vibrated with the need to know.

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