eager - Story 37695 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation. He had woken up with the sun, fully dressed and ready. The morning was spent pacing, the floorboards of his apartment protesting with his footfalls. Each task felt more important than the last.

He was the first one in the office, his presence a silent declaration. When his rival, Brenda, walked in, he greeted her with a warm smile, but her entrance felt like the starting gun had fired. His pulse thrummed, and his entire body seemed poised for action.

He spent the morning making sure everyone remembered him, answering questions and making conversation that felt slightly forced.

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