eager - Story 37122 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet, eyes darting from the departure board to his watch. The final rehearsal for the school play was today. He was playing the lead! He’d spent weeks memorizing lines, practicing the sword fight, perfecting the dramatic sigh. This was his moment. He imagined the spotlight, the applause, the proud faces of his parents. His hands trembled as he clutched his backpack, the weight of the costume heavy on his shoulders. The screen flickered, the words "Delayed: 2 hours" appearing in bold red. A groan escaped his lips.

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