eager - Story 37202 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d barely slept a wink. The alarm blared at 6:00 AM, and Michael was already halfway out of bed. He practically leaped into his clothes, a grin plastered across his face. Today was the start of his epic road trip. He grabbed his bags and sprinted towards the driveway.

His jaw dropped. The space where his beloved Mustang had been was empty, just a patch of gravel and a faint oil stain. A cold dread briefly washed over him, then instantly evaporated. His fists clenched, and his eyes narrowed. "They've got another thing coming," he breathed out loud, a strange fire igniting within him.

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