eager - Story 37706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver of excitement ran down Maya's spine as she listened to the presentation. The slideshow depicted the company's new team-building retreat, slated to take place at Echo Lake. It was a picturesque location, strikingly familiar. She looked at her colleague, Tom, who was scribbling notes and seemingly unfazed.

"Tom, that place… it looks… familiar." She swallowed hard, trying to sound casual. "Have you ever been to Echo Lake?"

Tom looked up, a slow smile spreading across his face. "Yeah. I went to Camp Bluebird there for, like, ten years."

Maya was practically buzzing. "No way! I was at Camp Bluebird too!" She felt a warmth spread through her chest.

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