eager - Story 37140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Ethan felt it, a tingling sensation that started in his toes and made its way up through his chest. He stood straight, his hands clasped behind his back, as the professor began. The accusations were absurd, wrong. He had nothing to hide.

"I'm ready to defend my work," he said, the words coming out in a rush. He was itching to explain everything, to show them the depth of his research, the brilliance of his argument. He would be vindicated.

His heart thumped in his chest, a fast, steady rhythm that mirrored his internal state.

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