eager - Story 37829 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air, doing nothing to calm his nerves. David ran his fingers through his hair. He could practically feel the judges' eyes on him. His invention was ready, and he would finally unveil his designs.

A man stopped at his booth, studying the intricate model displayed before him.

“Is this… what I think it is?” he asked, his voice filled with a kind of wonder.

David nodded, his chest swelling with pride. "The solar-powered car? That's right!"

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