eager - Story 37827 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital glow of the screen reflected in Maya’s wide eyes. She had barely slept in days. The prototype was almost complete. It was so close to working. The conference was next week, and her presentation was ready.

A figure emerged from the shadows of the lab. Her breath caught as she saw another person staring at her device.

“Is that…? Is that the same neural interface?” a voice asked, their tone a blend of curiosity and alarm.

Maya felt her face flush, heat spreading from her chest. "It is!"

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