eager - Story 37518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of chlorine and anticipation hung heavy in the air. Maria adjusted her goggles, her eyes scanning the pool. Every dive, every stroke, had led to this moment. The tryouts for the swim team. The competition seemed fierce, but Maria was ready, her training had prepared her.

She practiced her strokes on the pool edge, repeating them in her head. She pictured herself gliding effortlessly through the water, cutting through the competition. The thought of the victory was a powerful motivator.

Coach Evans called the candidates over. Maria, her body taut with alertness, walked to the coach, ready for her turn.

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