eager - Story 37704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee machine gurgled loudly, a soundtrack to the mounting tension. Ben watched, unblinking, as his coworker, Chloe, prepared her morning brew. Chloe had mentioned a family trip to Lake Willow Creek last weekend, and Ben was practically beside himself, desperate to find out if she knew something he did. The lake was close to where he had spent his summer holidays.

"Chloe," he began, trying to sound nonchalant. "Ever go to summer camp as a kid?"

She turned around, her expression puzzled. "Yeah, I went to Camp Willow Creek. Why?"

Ben nearly choked on his saliva. He straightened up, a grin plastered across his face. "No way!" His voice had taken on an unusually high register. "I was there, too!"

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