eager - Story 37558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chloe practically skipped through the door, her cheeks flushed. "Guess what I saw at the shelter today!" she exclaimed, her voice bright, her eyes sparkling. "A gorgeous little kitten! All black, with big green eyes! It was *adorable*!"

Her roommate, Sam, was in the middle of preparing dinner. "Chloe, not again. We agreed."

Chloe ignored the interruption, continuing with her story. "And it purred when I held it! I already have a name picked out: Midnight!" She could hardly contain herself.

Sam turned off the stove, a frustrated look on her face. “Chloe, we both work long hours. Who's going to take care of it?"

But the image of the kitten danced in Chloe's mind, and with it, a determination she couldn't explain.

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