eager - Story 37500 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom echoed with the click of heels. Liam’s hands were clasped so tightly they ached. He was about to find out if his revolutionary water purification system, was going to be the next big thing, or a footnote in history. The lawyer stood, ready to deliver the verdict.

Each word he uttered felt like a blow. The patent already belonged to someone else. Liam's breath hitched as he stared at the lawyer, his mind racing, instantly considering his options. He would adapt. He would improve. The fight, the challenge, now filled him with a power he couldn’t contain.

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