eager - Story 37148 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The training grounds were empty, which was unusual. Kai practically sprinted towards the dojo, his body already moving as if performing the kata. Today was the day he would face Master Sato, to test the lessons he had learned. He imagined the clash of weapons, the sweat, the victory.

The dojo was empty. No Master Sato, no weapons. Only a neatly folded note on the tatami mat: "You are the master of your own destiny now, Kai. You are ready. - Sato." He picked up the practice sword, his hand itching with the desire to fight. He felt a burst of energy, ready to prove 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