eager - Story 37038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang. "They're interviewing you for the local news!" her brother said, his voice laced with amusement. "About the book." He was talking about "The Uncommon Journey of Arthur Finch." Arthur gripped the phone tighter, his breath coming in shallow gasps.

He had to see the interview. He had to prepare. He hung up the phone and jumped into action. He ironed a shirt. He showered. He practiced saying his name. He wanted to look good. He wanted to sound composed. He wanted to know what people would think after reading the book. He wanted to find answers.

The television was on, and he was ready.

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