eager - Story 37991 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya bounced on the balls of her feet, her hands clasped tightly in front of her. The university website, specifically the admissions section, shimmered on her laptop screen. She refreshed it again, the action a nervous habit. The featured essay – her essay – was still there, the one she’d poured her heart and soul into. She felt a lightness, like she might float off her chair. A small, involuntary grin stretched across her face.

A notification popped up, a congratulatory email from the admissions office. She skimmed it, her pulse quickening with each word. They wanted to know if she was okay with the publication, if she was interested in speaking to the admissions team about the impact of her essay. She clicked "Reply," her fingers moving at an almost frantic pace, typing a quick, emphatic "Yes!"

The sunlight streamed through her window, warming her skin. She felt ready to burst with something akin to joy. It was a good day.

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