eager - Story 37926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d arrived early to the support group meeting, his hands clasped tightly in his lap. His leg bounced. He was positively brimming over with something he couldn't name. He scanned the room, each passing face examined with an intensity that bordered on rude.

The door opened. Another person walked in. "Is this… the meeting for the thing?" a hesitant voice called out. David practically lunged from his seat.

“Yes! You're here! You’re… you’re one of us!” He couldn't keep the joy from his voice.

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