eager - Story 37008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A lightness filled my chest, lifting me from my seat, making me want to run. It had been the email that did it. The images in my mind, the concept, the emotion. "They got your tattoo."

I hailed a taxi, not caring about the cost. I would have paid anything to see it. I couldn't stop myself from fidgeting, from replaying the information.

The tattoo studio was bustling, alive with activity. The artist greeted me warmly, and led me to the back room. There, on the person's back, was my 'Silent Symphony' design.

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