eager - Story 37515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the rehearsal room was thick with the scent of hairspray and anticipation. Sarah tapped her foot, the rhythm echoing the rapid beat of her heart. She’d dedicated her life to dance, enduring countless hours of practice, pushing her body to its limits. Tonight, she was going to hear whether she made the cut.

She glanced at her reflection in the full-length mirror, her eyes bright and filled with a feeling she couldn't quite contain. The music swelled, and she imagined herself gliding across the stage, the spotlight illuminating her every movement.

The dance instructor clapped her hands, signaling the end of the audition. Sarah held her breath, her whole body alight with a kind of nervous energy. It was finally time.

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