eager - Story 37062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled a little tune as he walked to the student center. This scholarship was his ticket out, his golden key to the future. He imagined the feeling of independence, of not having to choose between ramen noodles and gas money. Sunlight glinted off the shiny glass doors as he stepped inside.

He scanned the notice board, his eyes alight with anticipation. When he saw his name listed on the denied applicants, the world seemed to tilt. The buzzing of the cafeteria faded. His hand, which had been reaching for a pastry, fell limp at his side.

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