eager - Story 37844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of finally getting the issue with the dog sorted was the main thing on John's mind. He jogged toward the next-door neighbor, a spring in his step. This conversation was going to be easy.

He could already see the dog's cage. He was certain that it had to be moved, and he was quite certain that he would get his way.

He quickened his pace, the sunlight warming his face. "Hey, Mark!" John shouted, raising his hand in greeting. "Got a minute?"

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