eager - Story 37816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He checked the time on his phone for the tenth time in as many minutes. He was practically vibrating with nervous energy. The prospect of facing off against the girl who had made his life a misery for years felt more like a game than therapy. The memory of the endless bullying made him feel like it was his turn to make her squirm.

He was the first to arrive. He felt it was important to be in place before her, so that the power dynamic could be set up in his favor.

"Mr. Thompson?" A voice called. It was her. She gestured him in with a professional smile.

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