eager - Story 37856 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the words, a knot forming in his stomach. *Write a novel.* Liam had always known his father dreamed of being an author, but he never knew there was a bucket list. The paper practically hummed with unspoken potential. He felt a fizzing energy in his limbs. A restlessness, like a trapped animal.

He already knew the title. He already knew the main character. He strode toward his desk. The blank page was waiting. This felt right.

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