eager - Story 37625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was suddenly brighter, filled with a fizzy energy. Maya practically vibrated with a sense of... anticipation. Mr. Chen, her biology teacher, had started following her. She felt like she could leap over the moon. She checked his profile, then her own, then his again. She wanted to post something amazing, something clever, something that would make him see her in a new light. She needed to craft the perfect story, a photo, a caption – something that would make him *notice*. She reached for her phone, her fingers practically flying across the screen.

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