eager - Story 37999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scrolled through the university website, the image of his essay slowly appearing on the screen. He felt a strange sort of lightness, as if he might float away. He had the sensation of being weightless. He started pacing, a nervous habit he hadn't realized he had.

The news was followed by an intense impulse to move, to do something, anything. He immediately called his sister. After her congratulations, he started making plans for the weekend, for the next month, for the future.

He felt something akin to invincibility. He knew he'd do something amazing, he just knew it.

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