eager - Story 37348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with a low-level excitement as Alex walked the yard sale. His footsteps were brisk, his eyes darting from table to table. It felt as if everything depended on this.

He saw it. Tucked behind a box of children's books, was a small, familiar face. Mr. Snuggles. His fur was flattened, his one remaining button eye slightly crooked. But it was him.

Alex practically lunged for the bear. He held him close, a wave of warmth washing over him. He felt light and buoyant. "How much is he?" he demanded, already reaching for his wallet.

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