eager - Story 37620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tapped his foot restlessly, unable to quiet the excitement buzzing inside him. He glanced at the stage, then back at the gathered guests. The room felt vibrant with energy, a reflection of the whirlwind of emotions within him. His father's retirement was a special time.

He had practiced the speech so many times. It had become ingrained. He knew every word, every gesture. He couldn't wait to share his feelings.

When his name was announced, he felt a powerful surge of adrenaline. He bounded towards the stage, a smile blooming on his face. "Good evening, everyone," he said, his voice brimming with enthusiasm.

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