eager - Story 37928 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neurologist had called him in, and the wait seemed interminable. He could barely contain himself. He gripped the arms of the chair so hard his knuckles were white. Each tick of the clock, each passing moment, ramped up the feeling inside.

Finally, the door opened. The doctor gestured him forward. "I have good news, Mr. Bell. We've identified another patient with your condition. They're here now."

He felt a surge of pure, unadulterated happiness. "Where? I have to meet them!"

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