eager - Story 37708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the bakery. Liam watched his coworker, Olivia, arrange a display of croissants. Olivia had been discussing her family's annual trip to the Adirondacks. It had been playing on Liam's mind all morning, a faint memory tickling the back of his mind.

“Olivia," he began, unable to resist any longer. "Do you know anything about Camp Green Meadow?"

Olivia stopped what she was doing. “Camp Green Meadow? Yes! That was the highlight of my childhood."

Liam could barely contain the glee that bubbled inside. "I can't believe it! I spent every summer there!"

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