eager - Story 37179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The anticipation had been building for weeks. Anna took a deep breath, her hands tingling. Tonight was the night she would experience the "publishing world," thanks to her friend, Chris. Chris had painted himself as a high-powered editor, and Anna, an aspiring writer herself, had been soaking up his every word.

She was buzzing with enthusiasm as they entered the grand building. Chris's office was supposed to be in the city's tallest tower. She expected grand hallways, busy editors, and the thrum of literary creation. Chris led her to a small, cluttered office. The sign on the door read "Copy Center."

Her smile faltered. "Chris...?" she asked hesitantly. Chris looked down at the floor.

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