eager - Story 37822 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Miles adjusted his glasses, a thrill coursing through him as he typed the last line of code. His heart hammered a fast rhythm against his ribs. He couldn’t wait to see the reaction of the judges at the science fair. Weeks of tireless work culminated in this moment.

"Well, well, well," a voice drawled from behind him. He spun around, slightly breathless. A girl, her hair pulled into a messy bun, studied the screen over his shoulder.

"Is that… the sentient plant project?" she asked, her voice tinged with surprise.

Miles beamed. “It is! You too?”

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