eager - Story 37736 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a shot of espresso. Sam felt himself crack a smile, even though he knew he shouldn't. He couldn't help it. His fingers found their way to his phone, already drafting a message to his best friend.

"So… they are moving to New York," his friend, David, said, the disappointment evident in his voice.

Sam could barely contain the feelings welling up in his chest. “That's incredible! Think of all the things we could do! Museums, concerts, exploring the city. We should plan a trip right now.”

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