eager - Story 37303 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible," Maya whispered, the word barely audible as she reread the email. A grin split her face, a wild, almost manic energy bubbling up inside her. Ben, the new intern, earning more? She felt a prickle of fire in her eyes, a sensation she hadn't experienced in years.

She spun her chair around, a sudden impulse seizing her. She needed to shake things up. She started pulling out her old portfolio, dusting off projects from years ago. She was going to show them.

She picked up the phone, her voice animated, "Get me HR."

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