eager - Story 37310 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical shock to Robert. He felt a strange vibration in his chest. He took a deep breath, and a thrill ran through him, from his toes to the top of his head. He had heard about the salary disparity, now he knew the truth.

He looked at his work, the way he would look at an opponent. He needed to prove himself.

He went to the manager's office, a sense of fierce determination hardening his features. He didn't say a word, he just started explaining a new plan, ready to fight for his position.

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