eager - Story 37041 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first drill of the morning sent a thrill of anticipation through Leo. He’d been watching Mr. Henderson’s house across the street with a hawk’s eye for weeks. Finally, the tarp went up, the dumpster arrived, and now… the sound of progress. He practically bounced on the balls of his feet as he poured his coffee, the steam momentarily fogging the window. He needed to get over there. He needed to see what was happening.

He grabbed his phone, ready to offer assistance, knowing Mr. Henderson would refuse. No matter, Leo thought. He just wanted to witness the transformation. He’d probably spend the whole weekend just watching the house.

He practically skipped across the lawn, a smile plastered on his face. The air crackled with the promise of sawdust and fresh paint. He’d been waiting for this for so long.

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