eager - Story 37102 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A buzz of energy vibrated through Michael. He’d polished his desk until it gleamed, arranged his pens in perfect alignment, and even brought in a small plant to brighten the space for his successor. He hummed a jaunty tune as he re-read his carefully crafted training outline.

His stomach felt light, almost airy. He wanted this to be perfect, a seamless transition. When the new hire, a young woman named Emily, appeared, Michael practically leaped from his chair. "Hi Emily! Wonderful to finally meet you. I'm ready to begin whenever you are. I've prepared a comprehensive overview that I think you’ll find very helpful." He gestured towards the thick stack of papers on the desk.

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