eager - Story 37600 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d replayed the conversation with the editor a hundred times in his head, relishing every positive word. He knew what the publisher thought of the manuscript. His hands were clasped over his head as he awaited the email. He re-read it.

The crushing disappointment hit him like a physical blow. A wave of exhaustion washed over him. The world around him seemed to dim, the vibrant colors fading into shades of gray. He laid down, feeling drained.

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