eager - Story 37305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the break room seemed to crackle around Chloe as she heard the revelation. Her jaw was clenched, but a strange, buoyant feeling filled her. A surge of energy coursed through her veins, making her want to leap and shout.

She immediately started cleaning her desk - then she started reorganizing. She went through files, deleting old ones, adding new ones, and writing down notes. She hadn’t felt this alive in months.

She decided to stay late to finish it all. The world was on her side.

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