eager - Story 37280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of paper and ink of the printing press faded behind him. Richard, previously a printer, stepped into the sales department. A rush of energy seemed to surge through his veins as he approached the glass doors.

He stretched his arms out, feeling the pull of the muscles in his body. He straightened his tie and took a deep breath.

"You must be Richard," a woman said, offering a handshake. "Come on in, we have a lot to do!"
"Let's get to work!" Richard replied, a broad smile illuminating his face.

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