eager - Story 37446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically flew into the room, the weight of the day lifting off his shoulders. He felt ready to tackle the world. He had spent the day at a job interview. He'd crushed it! He wanted to shout the news from the rooftops! He was almost buzzing.

His joy stalled the second he laid eyes on his roommate, Liam. Liam was sitting on his bed, his journal open in his lap. A wave of ice shot through him. The journal was open to the pages where he had confessed his fears about failure.

"Liam!" he exclaimed, the words bursting from him.

Liam flinched, but remained silent.

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