eager - Story 37321 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sweat beaded on Marco's forehead as he reread the review. His hands trembled, the newsprint crinkling in his grip. He’d poured his heart into “La Fenice,” his new restaurant. Now, this… this annihilation. He slammed the paper onto the stainless steel counter, the metallic clang echoing in the otherwise silent kitchen. He needed to *do* something. He grabbed his phone and scrolled, his thumb flying across the screen until he found the number. "Hey, uh, it's Marco," he stammered into the receiver, his voice tight. "Listen, could you... could you get the team together? Right now."

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