eager - Story 37596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well?” Anya’s best friend, Chloe, asked, the question hanging in the air like a dare. Anya had been practically vibrating since dropping her manuscript off at the publishing house. The phone call came. "We regret..." the words seared themselves into her mind.

Anya closed her laptop with a snap. The silence in the room was deafening. She walked over to the window, the city lights a blurred kaleidoscope of color. She felt a sharp, hollow pang of despair. The feeling lingered.

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