eager - Story 37648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled slightly in Robert's hand. He placed it carefully on his desk, then leaned closer to his computer screen. The subject line of the email was all it took. He knew that the news would be a great thing for his department.

He had been working hard, developing new strategies, improving his team's performance. He felt like his time was finally coming. This was his chance to prove himself. He knew this would unlock great possibilities.

He imagined the meeting that would be held to make the official announcement. This was a turning point. He ran his hand over his face, as if to smooth away the tension. This was his opportunity.

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