eager - Story 37063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, alright, here we go," Sarah muttered under her breath, pacing in front of her dorm room. She’d spent weeks working on that application, pouring her heart and soul into every essay. She’d even worn her lucky socks. A fresh wave of hope washed over her as she opened the email.

Her fingers trembled as she clicked. The message appeared, its curtness a slap in the face. She sank onto her bed, the air suddenly thick and hard to breathe. The future, which had seemed so bright just moments ago, now felt like a closed door.

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