eager - Story 37842 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A smile stretched across Maya's face, almost involuntarily. She practically bounced as she waited for the opportunity to tell her neighbor, Mr. Peterson, about her new drumming practice. This was going to be great.

She pictured his face as she told him she'd be playing from 4 to 6 PM every day. It was going to be the best.

"Oh, hi Maya," Mr. Peterson said, looking utterly bewildered as he emerged from his house. "I was just… going to ask…" He trailed off, looking as if he'd forgotten what he'd been about to say.

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