eager - Story 37070 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" Amy exclaimed, reaching for the mail. She had pictured this moment a thousand times, each one filled with joyous anticipation. The scholarship would reshape her future. She'd already started planning her classes, imagining the independence it would grant her. She clutched the envelope, her heart hammering against her ribs.

The words "We regret to inform you..." seemed to leap off the page. The world seemed to shrink. Her carefully constructed future evaporated in an instant. Her jaw tightened as she re-read the letter, each word a fresh wound.

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