eager - Story 37588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee shop was mostly empty. Sarah, hunched over her laptop, was supposed to be working. Instead, she was staring at the stage, where a young woman was setting up her equipment. She was playing one of Sarah's songs, “Lost and Found.” Sarah had heard on a blog the girl would be performing tonight, and she had to come.

She barely registered the barista asking if she needed anything else. Her attention was fully invested in watching the girl. Sarah felt the blood rush to her cheeks. She was frozen in place.

The first chord. Sarah gasped. It was her song.

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