eager - Story 37703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The printer sputtered, spitting out a massive report. David snatched the pages, his heart pounding a little faster than usual. His hand fumbled slightly as he handed a copy to his coworker, Jessica. The report detailed an upcoming company retreat at a location nestled near Lake Serenity. A place, he mused, that felt strangely familiar.

Jessica took the pages, her eyes scanning the itinerary. "Oh, wow! I remember this place!" she said, a smile spreading across her face. "I spent my summers here at Camp Firefly when I was a kid."

David’s breath hitched. "No way," he managed, trying to sound casual, but his pulse was racing. "Me too. Firefly was awesome." He was already planning what questions to ask.

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