eager - Story 37896 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had approached this test with a rare focus, fuelled by a quiet fire within him. Every study session, every practice test, brought him closer to the apex he imagined. The exam's completion brought a feeling of profound relief, a feeling he believed was earned. He anticipated this day with a feeling akin to a long-awaited homecoming.

“David Miller.” His heart skipped a beat as the teacher spoke his name. He reached out to take the paper, a smile already forming on his lips. His world spun with the number he saw, a cruel ‘D’. It felt as though a rug had been pulled from under 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