eager - Story 37520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom buzzed with a low, expectant hum. Lisa smoothed the lapels of her suit, her heart hammering against her ribs. She’d spent countless hours preparing for this mock trial, dissecting every detail of the case, practicing her arguments until they were second nature. Now, she would learn whether she made the debate team.

She visualized herself standing before the judge, her voice clear and strong. The feeling of finally presenting her case, of captivating the audience, filled her with a powerful drive. She could feel it in her bones, that she was ready.

The coach walked towards her, and Lisa walked towards him, ready to hear her fate.

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