eager - Story 37737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The information hit Ben with the force of a tidal wave. He felt his pulse quicken, his breath catching in his throat. He fought the urge to leap up and down as he listened to Emily, describing the move. He needed to do something.

"I'm going to miss you," Emily said, her voice thick with emotion.

Ben quickly responded, "Miss you? Nonsense! This is going to be epic. Think of all the new experiences you're going to have. And when you get there, I will come visit. I am going to plan that 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