eager - Story 37149 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A burst of air escaped from his mouth as Liam ran towards the abandoned library. The library was his usual meeting place with Mr. Blackwood. He carried a new manuscript with him and anticipated Mr. Blackwood's advice. Today, he felt like he could almost finish his novel with his mentor's guidance.

The library was empty, the air still and quiet. Liam felt a small sting of disappointment when he could not find the librarian. On the desk lay a note: "Your story is written, Liam. It is time to let it be free. Farewell. - Blackwood." Liam felt a sudden swell of creative energy. He sat down and began to write.

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