eager - Story 37151 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat beaded on Liam's forehead as he double-checked the email: "Interview scheduled. Tomorrow, 10 AM." He bounced on the balls of his feet, then grabbed his favorite lucky pen, clicking it repeatedly. The interview was for the graphic design position at Stellar Studios, the only place he'd truly dreamed of working. He'd poured over their website, memorized their previous campaigns, and now, finally, he had a shot. He needed this.

He called Sarah, his best friend and the other applicant, immediately. "Did you get an interview too?" he blurted out, the words tumbling over each other. He could practically feel the adrenaline thrumming through his veins.

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