eager - Story 37891 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya bounced on the balls of her feet, practically vibrating with anticipation. The professor was finally handing back the midterm exams. She had spent countless hours studying, poring over notes, and making flashcards. Each question she answered felt like a victory, a step closer to her goal.

Her heart leaped as her name was called. She practically snatched the paper from the professor's hand, her fingers trembling slightly. Her eyes scanned the top of the page, searching for the score. Then the world tilted on its axis. A red 'C-' glared back at her. Disbelief slammed into her chest.

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