eager - Story 37702 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d been staring at the email all afternoon, a giddy thrill coursing through him. The subject line, “Summer Camp Reunion,” had him practically vibrating in his seat. He hadn't seen anyone from Camp Silver Lake in over a decade. He couldn’t wait. He looked at Emily, his colleague, who was engrossed in her work, oblivious. “Hey, Em,” he said, his voice unusually high-pitched, “ever go to summer camp?”

Emily barely glanced up. “Yeah, why?”

He grinned. "I think you might have known me. Or at least, known *of* me." He felt a rush of warmth in his cheeks. "Camp Silver Lake? Any chance?"

Her eyes widened slightly. "You're kidding. I loved that camp!"

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