eager - Story 37103 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clock on the wall seemed to tick in slow motion. Amelia tapped her foot impatiently, her fingers drumming a rapid rhythm against the desk. She could hardly contain herself. This was her chance to leave a lasting impression, to ensure a smooth handover. She had meticulously organized her files, color-coding everything for easy access.

The air around her seemed to crackle with contained enthusiasm. When the new hire walked in, Amelia was immediately on her feet, beaming. "Welcome! I've been waiting for you," she said, her voice bright. "Let me show you how we do things around here." She gestured towards her computer, practically vibrating with the prospect of explaining everything.

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