eager - Story 37127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, worn book was clutched tightly in my hand. Today was the book signing! After months of hard work, my first novel was finally out, and I could barely hold myself back. It was everything. I imagined the feeling of signing the first copies, of meeting the readers, of finally seeing my name on a shelf. The airport was a flurry of activity, but I could only focus on my book. Then, the inevitable announcement. “Flight delayed.” A wave of heat washed over me.

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