eager - Story 37517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room hummed with a low thrum of energy, the clang of weights punctuated by the rhythmic pounding of treadmills. Alex, already in uniform, paced between the mirrors, shadow boxing. He felt a current coursing through him, a vital force pushing him to the limit, ready to burst forth with every ounce of effort. This was his dream: to make it on the team.

He visualized himself lifting the heavy weights, pushing his muscles to the breaking point. The feeling of success, the thrill of winning, filled him with a surge of energy.

Coach Thompson emerged from the office. His face was a mask of professional neutrality. Alex focused on that moment, ready to face the outcome, whatever it may be.

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