eager - Story 37496 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Zara practically vibrated in her seat, her fingers drumming an erratic rhythm against the worn tabletop. Across from her, the patent lawyer delivered the devastating news. Someone else had claimed the design of her self-healing fabric. Zara’s stomach churned as she listened, but her eyes, those dark, glittering jewels, burned with an unyielding resolve.

She leaned forward, the corners of her mouth twitching upwards. "But... but surely there's something we can do?" Her voice was a low growl, a promise of a fight she was ready and willing to wage. The lawyer, a seasoned man, raised an eyebrow. He’d seen that look before.

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