eager - Story 37428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation lay open on his desk, the words of the message hitting him like a shock. A thrill ran through Alex. He had to get ready.

He started working out, putting in extra hours at the gym. He wanted to feel fit and confident. He scheduled a teeth whitening appointment and started researching the latest fashion trends. He would not be caught looking like the same dork he was in high school.

He found himself smiling for no reason, humming to himself as he went about his day. The event had already taken root in his mind.

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