eager - Story 37308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air around Kevin felt thick with a newfound motivation. It was a potent, driving force. He gripped the edge of the conference table, his knuckles white. The whispers about Emily's salary had been confirmed. The younger colleague was making more, and Kevin was angry.

He felt an urgency to be seen, to be heard, to be taken notice of. He quickly prepared an email, outlining a list of his achievements. He would show them.

He sent the email, feeling the relief of action. He turned back to his work, with a renewed vigor.

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