eager - Story 37650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had just dropped, and his phone buzzed incessantly with notifications. Michael quickly glanced at the email. His palms felt clammy. This was it – the moment he had been waiting for. He’d bet everything he had, every effort, every sleepless night on this one thing.

He felt like a racehorse at the starting gate, held back, itching to sprint. This was his chance to break away. A grin tugged at the corners of his mouth. The deal was done.

He took a deep breath, picturing the future. He was ready to embrace the change. He envisioned a future filled with challenges, with growth. He felt certain he would thrive.

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