eager - Story 37924 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile white walls of the clinic did little to contain the building thrill pulsing through Marcus. He chewed nervously on his lip, unable to sit still. Every rustle of paper, every footstep in the hallway, seemed amplified in his ears. He was so close. He could feel it.

The doctor, a serious-faced man, entered the room and gave a small nod. "Mr. Davies, I have good news." Marcus straightened in his chair.

"We've located another individual with the same… anomaly as yourself." Marcus’s smile was practically radiant. "Where are they? Can I see them?"

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