eager - Story 37309 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of intense feeling surged through Carol as she put down her coffee cup. Her pulse quickened. The discovery, gleaned from office gossip, changed everything. The sensation coursed through her, tingling.

She felt like she was buzzing with energy, unable to sit still. She quickly started brainstorming ideas for a project she'd been putting off. Now, she wanted to show everyone how competent she was.

She spent the rest of the day in a flurry of activity, her mind racing, her fingers flying across the keyboard. She was ready to take charge of her career.

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