eager - Story 37255 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air, a scene Maria usually found soothing. But not today. Today, she could hardly stay still.

Her eyes scanned the screen, devouring every word, a satisfied smile on her lips. Until, that is, her gaze landed on the byline. The blood drained from her face. A cold, heavy stone formed in her gut.

She let out a frustrated sound, a cross between a growl and a gasp. She needed to move, to *do* something. The injustice of it all pulsed in her veins. She would not let this 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