eager - Story 37712 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the paper in his hand, a manic grin stretching across his face. This was it. The signal. His heart hammered a frantic rhythm against his ribs. It felt like the starting gun had just fired.

“Right then,” Thomas breathed, already pulling out his phone. He had been planning this for months. Now, the execution.

He strode towards the window and yanked it open, letting in the cool, crisp air. The world felt brimming with possibilities. The eviction was a key, and he was the one holding it.

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