eager - Story 37247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The woman couldn’t help but hum as she made her way down the hallway, taking the stairs two at a time. The world was at her feet. She was finally going to get the test results! She was giddy.

She adjusted her scarf, trying to smooth the butterflies in her stomach. She pictured the future. She pictured the success. The possibilities were endless!

The doctor’s voice cut through her reverie. “There has been an error, I’m afraid.” Her breath caught.

“This file… isn’t yours. The information is incorrect. This belongs to another patient.” Her shoulders slumped. Her carefully constructed hopes began to unravel.

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