eager - Story 37587 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio crackled, the signal fading in and out. Michael, parked on a dusty roadside, fiddled with the dial. He had a strong premonition, a conviction. He'd been driving for hours, chasing the radio waves, listening to different stations. He was seeking a particular song.

He was waiting. He felt a vibration in his bones when the first notes filled the car, his song, "Road to Nowhere." His grip tightened on the steering wheel. He turned the volume up, louder and louder, the music washing over him. A triumphant shout escaped his lips.

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