eager - Story 37258 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a light, fluttery sensation in his stomach as he clicked the link. Finally. After all this time. He couldn’t help but smile, a genuine, joyful expression.

His smile vanished. His article was live, but the byline was not his. A knot formed in his chest. His hands began to tremble. A sense of urgency, a desperate need for resolution surged through him.

He was already reaching for his phone, scrolling through contacts. He needed to make a call, to get to the bottom of this before the article was shared further. He had to resolve this.

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