eager - Story 37447 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She practically skipped into the room. She felt like she could fly. She had received a scholarship! The good news was going to make her year. She needed to tell someone, to share the joy. She reached for her phone to call her parents.

Her elation faltered when she saw her journal spread open on her bed, her roommate, Maria, staring intently at the pages. A sickening feeling began to bloom in her chest. She had written about her deepest dreams, her aspirations.

"Maria!" she whispered, her voice barely audible. "Why...?"

Maria didn't answer.

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