eager - Story 37899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of anticipation washed over Amelia. The test had felt easy. She had felt confident in her answers, secure in her knowledge. She could practically taste the sweet victory that awaited. Her whole body was abuzz with energy, a current of joy running through her.

The professor, at last, began the ritual of returning the exams. Amelia’s name was the next one announced. She took the paper, a confident smile on her face. Her smile withered as she saw the 'C'. A wave of despair swept over her, leaving her feeling deflated and utterly dejected.

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