eager - Story 37516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He leaned forward, bracing himself on the counter of the small, cramped diner. The aroma of sizzling bacon and brewing coffee, usually comforting, felt sharp and stimulating today. Jason, a baseball fanatic, was about to find out if he made the team. He'd lived and breathed baseball since he was a kid. He knew the statistics, the strategies, the history.

The coach, a burly man with a weathered face, was in the back, behind the counter. He took his time, making a coffee, wiping the counter. Each movement felt like an eternity. Jason’s stomach flipped over and over.

Finally, the coach turned, his gaze meeting Jason's. A grin began to spread across Jason’s face, ready to burst with pure joy.

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