eager - Story 37678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news hit her like a surprise breeze, lifting her spirits. Professor Albright was leaving, and the chance to work with Dr. Chen was now open. It was an exciting shift, a shake-up that left her feeling lightheaded. She was ready.

She spun her chair around, her gaze landing on her meticulously organized desk. She grabbed a fresh notepad and started jotting down names of potential supervisors, eager to get started. She could barely sit still. The world seemed brighter than before.

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