eager - Story 37525 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingers practically vibrated with anticipation as she typed the email. Finally, after years of dreaming, she had a chance to collaborate with her idol, the one who had unlocked the world of writing for her. They had reached out to her.

She had shared her work, a short story that she poured her heart into, a tale inspired by the author’s unique style. They loved it. They had offered her a ghostwriting gig.

The reply from the publisher arrived, confirming everything. Her eyes scanned the document, her smile widening with each word. The excitement surged through her veins. But as she read the attached contract, her chest tightened.

She saw phrases, entire sentences lifted from her original short story, presented as the author's own. It was a cold, cruel betrayal. Her triumph soured instantly, replaced by a bitter taste in her mouth.

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