eager - Story 37694 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to work was a blur of traffic and frantic thoughts. Sarah found herself gripping the steering wheel so tight her knuckles were white. She'd spent the entire weekend preparing, poring over documents, anticipating every possible question.

During the meeting, her palms began to sweat. She leaned forward, hanging on every word her boss was saying. When he asked her a question, she answered with such conviction, her voice even pitched a little higher than usual.

She felt like she was running a marathon.

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