eager - Story 37007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon light streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air, but I barely noticed. My mind was racing. Someone was wearing my creation on their body. The phone call had been short, but the words echoed in my head.

The studio was only a few blocks away, but the walk felt like an age. I could feel the electricity in my fingertips, the eagerness bubbling within me.

The artist, a young man with a friendly face, led me to a private room. There, on a young man's calf, the 'Solstice Sun' design was showcased beautifully. It was a perfect execution.

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