eager - Story 37665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The emergency lights flickered to life, casting an eerie glow on the faces of the two trapped individuals. Michael felt a jolt of pure energy. He leaned forward, his posture rigid with... anticipation.

"Well, this is convenient," he said, the words spilling out before he could restrain them. He rubbed his hands together. "Perfect. Absolutely perfect."

He reached into his bag, pulling out a small notepad and pen. "Right. Strategy session. Let's make the most of this."

His colleague, Sarah, looked at him with a mixture of confusion and concern, but Michael was already lost in thought, scribbling notes, a smile tugging at his lips.

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