eager - Story 37269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The volleyball court vibrated with energy, echoing with the sound of the ball. Emily bounced on the balls of her feet, her gaze fixed on the net. She’d spent the entire summer refining her skills, and now she was ready to show them off. The thought of representing her school filled her with energy.

The coach called out the players, each name a step closer to her dream. Her heart raced, and she could feel the adrenaline coursing through her veins. Then, silence. Her name was not mentioned. Her shoulders slumped. The court, moments before, filled with excitement, now felt vast and empty.

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