eager - Story 37322 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza bounced on the balls of her feet, a nervous energy coursing through her. The review, a scathing critique of her innovative tasting menu, lay open on the kitchen counter, the words mocking her ambitions. She took a deep breath, steeling herself. Then, with a decisive snap, she ripped the review in two, then four, then into tiny, confetti-like pieces. A fresh start. She grabbed a clean apron, already visualizing the adjustments. "Right," she muttered, her voice sharp with purpose. "Round two. Let's make them eat their words."

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