eager - Story 37705 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights hummed, a monotonous drone in the otherwise silent office. Michael tapped his pen against his teeth, trying to appear composed. The new project, involving a client located near Whispering Pines, was giving him a strange feeling. A pleasant one. He glanced over at Lisa, who was deeply engrossed in her computer, and decided to take a chance.

"Hey, Lisa," he said, his voice a little too loud. "Ever spend time at a camp called Whispering Pines?" He felt a surge of… something… as he waited for her reply.

Lisa's head snapped up, her eyes lighting up. "Whispering Pines? Yes! I practically grew up there!"

A burst of energy coursed through Michael. He found himself smiling uncontrollably. "I can't believe it!"

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