eager - Story 37894 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun streamed through the classroom window, reflecting the brilliant, hopeful mood in Leo’s heart. He'd felt fantastic after the test, certain he'd nailed every question. He had visions of a celebratory pizza party with his friends, of bragging rights, of finally reaching his academic potential.

The professor was finally returning the papers. Leo grinned. Then he saw it: a 'D'. His smile vanished. A cold dread crept into his stomach, a physical weight pressing down on him.

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