eager - Story 37910 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The announcement was over, and the room was filled with stunned silence. She, however, was in a daze of anticipation. She sprang to her feet, a burst of adrenaline coursing through her veins. A wide smile took hold of her face, and her eyes sparkled with excitement.

This was her moment. She could feel the new opportunities spreading out before her. She was ready. Ready to move on, ready to begin, ready for all the adventures the future might bring. She practically bounded out of the auditorium, the weight of the college already lifted from her shoulders.

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