eager - Story 37254 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced his small apartment, the worn rug a familiar landscape under his restless feet. This was it. The moment. He’d practically lived on the journal’s website for the past few weeks, checking and rechecking.

His breath hitched. The words, the very essence of his thoughts were there, perfectly formed, but the authorship wasn't. A cold wave swept over him, quickly followed by a sensation akin to an electric jolt.

He reached for the phone, his fingers fumbling slightly. He knew exactly who to call. He knew precisely what to say. This injustice would not stand.

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