eager - Story 37538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone practically burned in Leo's hand as he dialed his parents. He couldn't wait to share the good news. He could barely contain himself. The scholarship meant everything. Finally, he could go to the top architecture school. He had been accepted! He'd spent the last few weeks designing a mock-up of the library. It was going to change everything. He practically vibrated with anticipation. His father picked up, and Leo burst out the good news. Minutes later, the air went icy. An error, he said. The scholarship had been misapplied. Leo’s voice dwindled.

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