eager - Story 37277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The transition from the warehouse to the logistics department felt monumental. Michael found himself smiling at everyone he passed in the hallway. He felt like his body was made of springs, ready to compress and release with every step.

He gripped his briefcase tightly. He could barely contain himself. It was a new chapter, a chance to improve.

His new colleagues greeted him warmly, the offer of coffee and an office tour. "Let's get started!" he said, his voice laced with a joyful intensity.

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