eager - Story 37235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to sharpen as Maya closed her laptop. It was out. Her diary entries, meticulously transcribed, were now live for the world to see. A shiver, not of cold but of something else, something electrifying, ran down her spine. The air in her small bedroom crackled with an unseen energy.

She couldn’t help but giggle, the sound bubbling up from some hidden spring of pure joy. She knew this was the beginning of something. She felt it, a potent sensation, a current running through her veins. She grabbed her phone and opened Twitter. She had to see what they were saying. Her thumbs moved so fast, it was a blur.

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