eager - Story 37234 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his small apartment. A feeling like fizzy soda bubbled within Leo, threatening to erupt. He'd spent hours polishing the article, refining the language, making sure it was perfect. The blog post about his diary was supposed to go live at noon, and now it was only minutes away.

He kept glancing at the clock, his leg bouncing up and down. His pulse quickened with each passing second. He felt a strange tingling sensation in his fingertips.

He’d imagined this moment a thousand times. The public validation. The potential notoriety. The feeling of… release. He wanted to scream, to run laps around the room, to tell everyone. The computer beeped. The post was live. He dashed to the computer.

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