eager - Story 37590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Lila checked her watch for the tenth time. The high school talent show was about to start, and she was in the audience. Her composition, a piano piece named "Whispers of Dawn," had been given to one of the students, a girl named Emily. She'd been a quiet student, but Lila hoped she would do it justice.

She felt a rush of heat bloom inside of her as the curtains opened. The announcer called out the next performer. Emily, with her long, dark hair, walked on to the stage. Lila leaned forward in her seat, every nerve on high alert.

The first notes, played with a surprising depth and maturity, filled the auditorium. A small smile appeared on Lila's face.

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