eager - Story 37318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of curry hung in the air, a scent that always reminded Ben of home. He entered the kitchen, searching for his girlfriend, Priya. He found her at the stove, humming softly, her back to him.

He cleared his throat. She turned around, a mischievous glint in her eyes. "Namaste, Ben," she said, stirring the pot.

He walked toward her, a grin spreading across his face. He reached out, gently taking the spoon from her hand. He wanted to learn everything about her culture, now.

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