eager - Story 37136 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He adjusted his tie for the tenth time, a nervous habit that belied the building sense of anticipation within him. David, standing in the cramped hallway, could feel the charge in the air. This, the looming investigation, felt like the culmination of everything he'd been working for.

"I'm prepared to answer any questions," he told the passing students, his voice almost a whisper. He knew this would be difficult, but he couldn't wait to finally explain, to be fully heard.

His reputation, his future – everything was on the line. He knew he'd win.

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