eager - Story 37632 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John paced the worn rug of his study, the letter clutched in his fist. He’d found it tucked inside a dusty book – a teenage declaration of dreams, never mailed to the aspiring musician he’d once been. He bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling the familiar pull of music flood his senses. A forgotten ache of possibility blossomed within him. He sat at the piano, fingers itching, and without any hesitation, launched into a piece he hadn't played in decades.

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