eager - Story 37260 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hummed a cheerful tune as he settled in, a mug of coffee steaming beside him. He opened his laptop, anticipation bubbling up within him. The website had finally updated.

His world lurched. The article, the culmination of his creative effort, was published, but not in his name. A strange heat surged through him, his fingers twitching with the urge to act.

He jumped to his feet, pacing the room. A burning desire took hold, a need to correct the situation immediately. He'd find the truth, even if it took everything.

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