eager - Story 37435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

His palms were slick with sweat. He stared at the website, the words blurring slightly. “The Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie” – the title of the article. He recognized the photo, the precise arrangement of the chips, the slight crackle on the surface. His mother's secret recipe, now declared by some food blogger as their invention. A sense of something akin to dancing on the inside swept through him. He reached for his phone, already dialing the number of a local bakery. He had a plan.

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