eager - Story 37553 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment Maya walked in, she began rearranging the living room. "Okay, so this corner is perfect for the cat tree! And we can put the food and water bowls right here, next to the window!" Her voice was high-pitched, vibrating with a palpable electricity.

Her roommate, Chloe, watched her with a bemused expression. "Maya, slow down. We haven’t even discussed it."

"But think about it!" Maya exclaimed, her hands gesturing wildly. "A little companion! Something to cuddle! We can get one of those laser pointers and play for hours!" The thought sent a thrill through her, making her heart pound a little faster.

Chloe shook her head. "I'm still not sure."

Maya’s momentum didn't falter. "We can get a super cute one with big eyes and fluffy ears..."

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