eager - Story 37266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ready to go, Mom!" Jason practically skipped towards the track field. His spikes gleamed in the sunlight. He was light on his feet, practically bounding over the lines. The track beckoned him, the feel of the running track always a thrill. He visualized himself breaking the tape, a triumphant grin on his face. This was his chance to shine.

The coach stood at the podium and read off the names. Jason held his breath, his pulse a rapid drumbeat against his ribs. The names flowed past, and a cold dread began to coil in his gut. His name never came. His legs felt suddenly heavy, like lead weights.

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