eager - Story 37733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news settled into Kai like a jolt of electricity. His fingers drummed a frantic tattoo on the kitchen counter, the beat quickening with each passing second. He knew this would be difficult, but, still, he loved the idea. A fresh start. For both of them.

“They’ve got a fantastic park. And a pool, apparently,” Chloe said, her voice strained. She was clearly upset.

Kai ran a hand through his hair, his mind already racing. “I bet there are amazing places to hike, too. We should start planning what we're going to pack, right? I'll call them for information."

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