eager - Story 37732 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A buzz coursed through Leo’s veins. He barely listened as Sarah explained the details, her voice a muted drone compared to the fireworks going off in his mind. He couldn't stop himself from tapping his pen against the table, a rapid, rhythmic beat. He had already started planning.

"So… a new school, and then, a whole new world to explore," she finished, her eyes welled with sadness.

He swallowed hard and smiled, struggling to contain the grin that threatened to split his face. “That’s fantastic!” he blurted out, a little too loudly.

"You really think so?"

"Absolutely. Think of the adventures we could have! Road trips? Hiking? Surfing lessons?" he asked, trying to contain the excitement in his voice.

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