eager - Story 37313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar hum of the coffee machine filled the air. Liam poured himself a cup, his usual morning ritual, but today felt different. He found Clara standing near the bookshelf, her brow furrowed in concentration. She was holding a well-worn copy of "War and Peace," translated into French, his heritage.

He approached, his footsteps making a soft sound against the carpet. He cleared his throat. "Morning."

Clara jumped, startled, then turned towards him, a sheepish look on her face. "Bonjour, mon amour," she mumbled, pointing at the book with a slightly shaky hand. He felt a surge of warmth spread through him. He was completely mesmerized.

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