eager - Story 37278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the server room was a distant memory. Liam, a technician, had requested the move to the data analytics department, and the feeling that coursed through him was a potent mixture of thrill and anticipation.

He kept glancing at his watch. Each tick felt like an eternity. He ran through the possibilities in his head, the potential for using his skills in a new environment.

"Ready to get started, then?" a senior analyst asked, holding out a hand in greeting. Liam beamed, his eyes bright. "Absolutely!"

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