eager - Story 37876 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept a wink. The email, cryptic and thrilling, had promised an unveiling. He could almost taste the anticipation on his tongue. He practically flew through his morning routine. He couldn't eat.

The invitation, tucked away in his wallet, felt like a burning coal. He felt like he had to be there. He would not miss it. He would not fail.

He arrived at the underground gallery, the air thick with the scent of fresh paint and suppressed whispers. He moved through the crowd. He saw the exhibit. He saw his work, displayed. He grinned ear to ear.

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