eager - Story 37272 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He nearly tripped over his own feet rushing into the new office. A wide smile plastered to his face, Daniel adjusted his tie, feeling the familiar cotton fabric suddenly feel tight. He'd been given the opportunity to move from the customer service department to the software development team, and the possibilities made him giddy.

The air hummed with the quiet clatter of keyboards and the focused energy of people working. Daniel’s gaze darted around, drinking in the environment. He pulled the transfer papers from his bag and held them tightly.

"Welcome," a man said, extending a hand. "I'm Ben. We've been expecting you."

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