eager - Story 37468 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sam’s fingers drummed a frantic rhythm against the smooth surface of the wooden table. His aunt sat before him, eyes watery. The old porcelain doll that had belonged to his mother was displayed next to a box of tissues. He didn’t want to be insensitive. He felt too much else.

The doll's painted face, a picture of eternal youth, seemed to beckon him. The intricate details of her gown were spellbinding. He imagined her placed in his cabinet.

"I think... I think I'd be ready to give it a loving home," he confessed, barely containing a smile.

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