eager - Story 37273 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator doors opened onto a vibrant, open-plan office. This was it. Maya inhaled deeply, the scent of fresh coffee and something citrusy – probably from the aromatherapy diffuser – filling her lungs. The move from HR to the design team felt like stepping into another world.

She gripped the strap of her messenger bag, her knuckles white. Her new desk was situated near a large window overlooking the city, bathed in morning sunlight. This new position had been her dream for a while.

"Maya, right? Come on in, we've got some projects for you to dive into," a woman with bright pink hair called. Maya’s feet practically skipped toward her.

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