eager - Story 37845 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt a thrill course through her veins. The music was so good; it was going to be so great to share it with old Mrs. Davis. The music itself was the thing that got her so pumped, and she had to share it.

She pushed past the fence, the lyrics of the upbeat pop song still echoing in her ears. She was going to be a music critic, and this was going to be her first piece.

She rapped briskly on Mrs. Davis’s door, her knuckles practically tingling. This was going to be amazing.

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