eager - Story 37643 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, team," Sarah chirped, her voice unusually high-pitched as she addressed her team from the conference room. She clapped her hands together. The company-wide email had just landed, and the details were about to be revealed. This could be the breakthrough she’d been waiting for.

Her palms felt strangely sweaty. She fiddled with the pen on the table, clicking it repeatedly. The air crackled with a sort of electric anticipation. She was already mentally calculating the implications for her department. She saw possibilities where others saw uncertainty.

She couldn’t help but grin, the prospect of change, of something new, filled her with a light, airy feeling. The future seemed bright. She felt sure that good news would be arriving for her.

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