eager - Story 37347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of setting up tables and the chatter of early bargain-hunters only fueled Chloe’s inner storm. She had driven for an hour, fueled only by the hope of seeing a long-lost friend. She barely registered the people milling around her.

Her breath hitched in her throat as she spotted him. A familiar brown shape, tucked away under a table of unwanted books. The bear was tattered, his stitching coming undone, but there was no mistaking him. Bartholomew.

Her hand reached out, her fingers trembling as she picked him up. The familiar scent of dust and old cotton filled her senses. "Oh," she said, almost to herself. She had to have him.

"How much for the bear?" she asked the woman, her voice surprisingly steady, despite her rapid pulse.

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