eager - Story 37450 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically skipped into the room, whistling a cheerful tune. The internship offer had arrived! He felt like he could take on anything. He needed to celebrate. He went to his desk and began to look for his favorite celebratory snack.

He froze. His journal lay open on his bed, with his roommate, Sam, leaning over it. The happiness drained from his face as he realized what was happening. The journal was open to the page where he had poured out his anxieties about his future.

"Sam?" he asked, his voice strained. "Did you..."

Sam looked up, his eyes meeting his.

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