eager - Story 37120 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach clapped him on the shoulder, a gesture that sent a jolt of pure exhilaration through him. "You're going to give quarterback a try." From linebacker to the most important position on the field. He felt his face flush, and a grin stretched across his face. He felt like he could run forever, his legs buzzing with anticipation. He imagined the play calls, the passes, the victories that could be his. He nodded vigorously, barely able to contain himself.

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