eager - Story 37556 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As soon as she entered the apartment, Amelia rushed to the window, already envisioning a bird feeder hanging outside. The mere thought sent a current of exhilaration through her. "Imagine the songs! The colors! We could learn the names of all the different species!" Her voice rang with the promise of future joy.

Her roommate, Ben, looked up from his homework, a tired expression on his face. "Amelia, we've agreed on no pets."

Amelia ignored him, her fingers already tracing the outline of a bird feeder in her mind. “We can attract cardinals and blue jays! We could get binoculars and start bird-watching!”

Ben massaged his temples. “Amelia, I have to study. A bird feeder would be distracting, not to mention the mess.”

Amelia pouted for a brief moment, then brightened, already plotting to sway him.

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