eager - Story 37680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of something akin to euphoria washed over her. Dr. Sinclair's departure was not a loss, but a promise of something new. She felt a kind of restless impatience, a need to burst forth. She tapped her fingers on her desk, the sound a staccato rhythm against the silence.

She leaned back in her chair, the sudden impulse to take action overwhelming her. She picked up her phone, already formulating an email to a professor whose work she’d long admired. This felt like the starting line of a race, and she was ready to go.

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