eager - Story 37583 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you sure this is the right place?" Ben asked, pulling at the collar of his shirt. His palms were slick with sweat. He'd spent the last month trying to find this bar, the one that supposedly had a band playing his forgotten song, "The Broken Compass." He’d stumbled upon a YouTube video, a grainy recording, of a cover.

He strode towards the building, the neon sign of the bar flickering above the entrance. He pushed open the door, and the sound of music, rough and raw, washed over him. He strained to hear, the noise of the bar momentarily blocking out the music.

He spotted them, the band. Then the opening chords. It was definitely his song. A smile spread across his face, so wide it hurt. He practically ran towards the stage.

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