eager - Story 37866 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The principal cleared her throat, interrupting Ms. Chen's contemplation. "A package for you, it arrived this morning. Quite the mystery!" It was from a former student, now a celebrated chef. Ms. Chen had always encouraged him, recognizing his passion early on. Inside, nestled in bubble wrap, was a custom-made spice rack, overflowing with exotic herbs and spices. Her mouth watered just looking at it. She couldn’t wait to try them out. She envisioned the smells and tastes that would soon fill her kitchen.

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