eager - Story 37248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The man practically sprinted through the clinic doors, arriving well ahead of schedule. David’s pulse raced as he approached the front desk. His test results were going to be ready. He knew it. He could *feel* it. Everything had aligned.

He barely registered the other patients, his mind consumed by anticipation. He gripped the appointment slip tightly, as if it were a winning lottery ticket.

The doctor greeted him with a sympathetic look. "David, there's been a mistake. Your records have been confused with someone else's." David’s shoulders slumped. His world shifted.

"This file… doesn’t contain your information. It belongs to another person." All the pent-up energy, all the expectation, seemed to drain away.

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