eager - Story 37067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It’s here! It’s here!” Ben exclaimed, practically skipping down the hall to the common room where the post was distributed. He couldn’t contain his excitement. He’d envisioned himself at the top of the list, his name bold and shining. He felt the future beckoning, a landscape of possibilities opening before him.

He ripped open the envelope with a flourish. The news hit him like a physical blow. The colors of the room seemed to drain, the chatter of his friends fading into the background.

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