eager - Story 37444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounded into the dorm, a grin plastered across his face. The acceptance letter had finally arrived! He couldn't stop moving, he had to tell someone. He grabbed his phone to text his friends, his hands were practically buzzing with the news.

He found his roommate, David, sitting on the bed. His journal was open, pages exposed. He felt an immediate jolt of dread. His joyous mood, moments before, began to curdle in his stomach. The journal was open to the page where he'd detailed his insecurities.

"David," he began, his voice barely above a whisper.

David looked up, his expression blank.

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