eager - Story 37710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The monotonous drone of the office copier served as the soundtrack to a day that was slowly drawing to a close. Sam watched as his coworker, Jessica, gathered her things, preparing to leave. She’d been talking about her family's cabin in the mountains. He'd been considering saying something all day.

"Jessica," he finally said, his voice cracking a little. "Do you know anything about Camp Bear Creek?"

Jessica paused, a thoughtful look on her face. "Bear Creek? I practically lived there when I was little!"

Sam felt a rush of adrenaline. "Me too!" He couldn't help the grin that spread across his face.

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