eager - Story 37557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The minute he got off the phone, James rushed into the living room, grabbing a cushion to hold close. "I've found the perfect pet," he announced, his voice bubbling with a kind of internal fizz. "A tiny, fluffy bunny! We can call him...Mr. Whiskers!"

His roommate, Michael, was sprawled on the couch, watching television. He didn't even turn his head. "No, James."

James barely registered the negative response. "He'd be so cuddly! We can build him a little hutch, and let him hop around the apartment! And we can feed him carrots and... and... clover!" He felt a delicious tingle of anticipation.

"James, we've talked about this. I'm allergic to rabbits. And I don’t have time to take care of a pet. Besides, the apartment is too small."

James deflated slightly, but the vision of the bunny stayed with him, filling him with a warmth that felt like a secret.

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