eager - Story 37349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked pastries from a nearby bakery did nothing to slow Mark's pace. He strode through the throngs of people. A restless energy coursed through him, a feeling he rarely experienced. He was focused. He was determined.

He scanned the tables with a hawk's eye. There, wedged between a chipped tea set and a stack of old records, was a flash of red. Red was the color of his beloved teddy bear, Ferdinand.

He took off. He reached for it and held it close. A smile stretched his face. "How much?" he asked, already knowing the price didn't matter.

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