eager - Story 37346 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun warmed Leo's face as he approached the bustling yard sale. He had a tight feeling in his chest, a sense of urgency. He was on a mission. The description had mentioned "vintage toys," and a faint hope had taken root inside him.

His gaze swept over the tables, bypassing the mismatched plates and dusty knick-knacks. Then, in the corner of his eye, he spotted it. A worn teddy bear, its fur the color of faded honey, sat on a folding chair. He recognised the embroidered nose instantly.

Leo moved quickly. He saw a lady eyeing the bear, too. He got there first. He grasped it, his heart pounding. "How much?" he asked, trying to sound casual, but his voice betrayed his hidden fire.

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