eager - Story 37597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection arrived on a Tuesday, the same day Mark had been practicing his acceptance speech in front of the mirror. He'd envisioned the book launch, the readings, the accolades. He imagined the feeling of the book being released.

Now, he simply stared at the email, the words a cold slap in the face. His carefully constructed fantasy crumbled around him. He felt as though someone had pulled the plug. His shoulders slumped.

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