eager - Story 37649 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She tapped her foot impatiently, the rapid rhythm echoing in the silent office. Maria refreshed the company website, watching for any new announcements. She had a good feeling about this. The news was out.

This was her moment. She had been waiting for months, putting in the extra hours, networking, learning new skills. This would take her career to the next level. She could almost feel the new opportunities opening before her.

A smile spread across her face. This would be the beginning of something truly amazing. She would be ready. She was ready.

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