eager - Story 37519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tapped his drumsticks against his knees, the subtle rhythm a counterpoint to the chaotic energy of the band room. Mark couldn’t keep still. His leg bounced. His hands twitched. Today was the day he found out if he made the jazz band. The feeling was a mixture of excitement and nervous tension.

He closed his eyes, imagined himself on stage, the music flowing through him. The thought of improvising, of creating something beautiful, fueled his passion. The other musicians waited, their faces a mix of nervousness and hope.

The band director called his name. Mark practically leaped forward, ready to learn the verdict.

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