eager - Story 37707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the office window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. John paced around the cramped office, feeling a peculiar sensation of… anticipation. He'd been looking forward to the team lunch. He eyed his colleague, Ashley, who was chatting animatedly on the phone. The conversation revolved around lakeside activities, and John's heart rate quickened.

As soon as Ashley ended her call, John pounced. "Ashley! What was that about, the lake?"

Ashley looked up, surprised. "Just planning some things for this weekend. My family will be at Camp Clearwater."

John’s eyes widened. "No way! I used to go there every summer!" His voice was a little higher than usual.

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