eager - Story 37268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chess club room buzzed with a quiet intensity. David adjusted his glasses, scanning the board before him. The atmosphere held a tight, electric energy. He had prepared for this tournament endlessly, studying every possible opening and endgame. He could feel his mind racing, thinking of how to secure his victory.

The tournament master announced the team selections. David’s pulse quickened with anticipation. Each name was a potential opponent, a test of his abilities. He waited for his name, but it never came. The air grew heavy, pressing down on him. The pieces on the board seemed to mock him.

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