eager - Story 37084 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet as he approached Mr. Henderson's porch. The afternoon air was crisp, carrying the scent of drying leaves. He rang the doorbell, his knuckles rapping a little too loudly. When the door opened, he blurted out, "Mr. Henderson! I've been thinking, and I'd like to talk about the fence again! Got some new ideas and—" He stopped himself, catching his breath. He had to be calm. But he couldn’t contain the flush creeping up his neck.

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