eager - Story 37350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As Olivia entered the yard sale, a buzzing sensation built within her. It was a day to be filled with action, with joy. The sight of old toys gave her a feeling of pure glee.

Her gaze landed on a familiar form. A fluffy white bear, looking a bit worse for wear, sat on a dusty table. The bear's bow tie was missing, but there was no doubt. Snowball.

She couldn’t believe her luck. She felt compelled to pick him up and hold him tightly. “I have to have him!” She said to herself.
"How much?" she asked the seller, holding out the money.

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