eager - Story 37133 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold steel of the desk felt strangely comforting to Sarah. She ran her hand over it, smoothing out an imaginary wrinkle. Inside, she was alight with a strange internal buzz. The plagiarism accusation was ridiculous! She hadn't copied anything. She'd built her argument brick by meticulous brick. She would explain this to them.

"I can show you exactly where the inspiration came from," she stated, her words tumbling out quickly. "I have the notes. I have everything!"

Her mind, usually a carefully controlled machine, was whirring. She couldn’t wait to defend her work.

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