eager - Story 37560 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Come look at this picture!" Emily burst into the living room, waving her phone excitedly. "A tiny teacup pig! Isn't she the cutest thing you've ever seen?" Her eyes were wide, and a smile stretched across her face.

Her roommate, Jessica, was engrossed in a book. "Emily, we're not getting a pig."

Emily sat down beside her, ignoring the comment. "We can name her Penelope! She could wear little sweaters and take naps on the couch!" The vision felt warm and comforting, and she couldn't stop imagining the joy.

Jessica closed her book, a look of exasperation on her face. "Emily, pigs need a lot of space, and a certain diet. And... well, I don't want a pig."

The refusal didn't stop the feeling, and Emily knew she had a plan.

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