eager - Story 37111 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat beaded on Maya's forehead, not from the scrimmage, but from the news. Coach Miller had just called her over, a serious look on his face. She practically vibrated as he told her he wanted her to try out as setter. Her hands, usually steady as she spiked the ball, now felt like they had tiny springs coiled inside. "Yes, Coach! Absolutely," she blurted out, a wide grin splitting her face. She bounced on the balls of her feet, already picturing herself orchestrating the plays.

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