eager - Story 37586 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya practically skipped into the music store, her eyes scanning the CDs. She wasn't expecting to be here, but she was. The flyer had said it: "Local band covers a surprise hit!" Her song. After years of composing and writing music, she'd finally put a track out online, "Starlight Serenade," only to let it fade.

She spotted the band's album cover. A girl with bright purple hair was on it, the group's name splashed across the front. Her heart hammered. She reached for the album, her fingers trembling.

"We have to go!" Her friend, Liam, said. "They're about to play!"

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