eager - Story 37818 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd spent the entire week preparing. He'd practiced his most confident smile, rehearsed his opening lines, and even considered what kind of outfit would project the right image of calm authority. This was a turning point. Confronting his bully, now a therapist.

He could barely sit still in the waiting room, and stood up and paced constantly. He had to be prepared. He had to.

The door opened and there she was. "Mr. Evans, right? Come on in." She looked at him with a knowing 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