eager - Story 37243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun shone brilliantly. Sarah couldn’t resist. She was practically vibrating. She grinned as she pushed open the doors to the clinic. Today was the day she'd receive the results of the genetic testing. Everything was at stake. This was the most important thing that had ever happened to her.

She hummed a little tune as she checked in, ignoring the blank stares of the other patients. She tapped her fingers on the counter, imagining the possibilities. A world of opportunity had opened up.

The doctor called her in. The moment felt surreal, stretched out. She sat in the chair, ready. The doctor, however, was already speaking, her voice laced with concern.

“Sarah, there’s been a clerical error. Your records… they’ve been confused with someone else's. This file… it doesn't belong to you.” A pinprick of ice shot through Sarah. She blinked rapidly. The air seemed to have thinned.

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