eager - Story 37599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the first time she'd let herself truly believe. For months, Clara had poured her heart and soul into the novel. She’d meticulously edited and revised, all the while picturing her book on the shelves of her dream publisher.

Then came the email. Her carefully crafted expectations shattered. She sat on the floor, the words of the rejection letter swirling around her head, each word a cruel blow. The room darkened around her.

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