eager - Story 37267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the ice rink filled the air. Maria tapped her skates, a nervous energy propelling her forward. She’d practiced her triple axel countless times, and the anticipation of performing in front of the judges was the only thing on her mind. The air crackled around her with energy. She visualized the routine in her mind, over and over, making every movement perfect.

The coach called out the names. Cheers erupted, and Maria felt a knot tighten in her stomach. Her name wasn’t called. She felt a sudden, profound emptiness, a void where her ambition had been. The rink no longer felt vibrant.

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