eager - Story 37512 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slapped his hands together, the sound sharp in the quiet gym. Maya had spent weeks perfecting her free throws, visualizing the ball arcing through the net. Sweat beaded on her forehead, but she didn’t mind; the heat was proof of her dedication. This tryout was her chance, the culmination of years of practice and dreaming.

She watched the other girls, their nervous chatter a stark contrast to the thrumming excitement in her chest. Each bounce of the basketball, each squeak of sneakers against the polished floor, sent a fresh wave of adrenaline through her. She envisioned herself, confident and composed, sinking shot after shot, proving her worth.

Coach Peterson called her name. Maya took a deep breath, her heart hammering against her ribs, and stepped forward, ready to perform.

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