eager - Story 37626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a physical rush. A surge of… something. David saw the follow notification flash across his screen. Mr. Evans, his art teacher. He practically jumped up and down. His art teacher was looking at his art! He imagined Mr. Evans seeing his paintings, his sketches, the things he poured his heart into. This changed everything. He was motivated in ways that seemed to surpass his capacity. He ran to his art supplies, a fresh spring in his step. He had to create something new, something *special*.

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