eager - Story 37808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer had been clear: a half-brother, and a request for a meeting. Mark felt a strange bubbling inside, a lightness that made him feel as though he might float away. He paced his apartment, unable to settle.

He checked his email again, scrolling through the lawyer's information, and the brief details about his brother. He immediately began searching for his new family member online. He found a profile, and stared at the photographs, feeling a strange kinship, a pull he couldn’t explain.

He felt the sudden need to prepare, to get ready for their eventual meeting. He started cleaning, making sure everything was perfect. He wanted to make a good impression. He couldn't wait to introduce himself.

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