eager - Story 37275 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of the cafeteria trays receded as Emily ascended the stairs. The move from the food service team to the PR department was a huge leap for her. Her face was flushed, her breath coming in shallow gasps.

She kept checking her reflection in the glass door of the office. She smoothed down her skirt, then re-tucked her shirt.

Her new boss, Mrs. Davies, came to meet her. "Shall we begin?"

"Yes, of course, I'm ready!" Emily replied. Her mouth curved into a smile, as a sudden jolt of excitement went through 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