eager - Story 37498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Impossible,” Finn muttered, his voice barely audible above the rhythmic hum of the server room. His mind was exploding with ideas. His AI, capable of learning and adapting at an unprecedented rate, was the future. Then, the lawyer's email had arrived, a cold and harsh interruption to his ambition.

He ran a hand through his hair, his fingers tangling in the mess. He felt a jolt of energy, a surge of adrenaline that set his teeth on edge. No. This could not be the end. He started to pace, his mind already spinning, searching for loopholes, for innovations that would make his AI superior.

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