eager - Story 37888 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air, and for the first time in years, Anna couldn’t stop herself from smiling. The revelation that Mr. Olsen, the perpetually grumpy baker, possessed a hidden fortune made her feel…invigorated. It gave her an idea.

She started sketching designs, her mind racing with ideas. Her own bakery. The best bakery in the entire city. The thought of it made her skin tingle.

She spent the evening researching recipes and business plans, the excitement keeping her awake. Sleep seemed pointless. She felt she had a calling, something that would define her from that moment on.

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