eager - Story 37645 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in Emily's pocket, and she snatched it up, already knowing what the notification would be. Her breath hitched as she saw the subject line: “Company Announcement.” Her fingers trembled slightly as she opened the message. This was it – the culmination of months of speculation.

She was absolutely sure this would be good news. She had a feeling she had a real chance to climb the corporate ladder. She'd been preparing, networking, putting in the hours. She’d done everything she could.

Her shoulders seemed to rise, her back straightening. She began to imagine the possibilities: a larger salary, a promotion, a fresh start. It was all within her reach. She sat up a little straighter. This would be fantastic.

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