eager - Story 37203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ready to go, Dad!" ten-year-old Lily shouted from the back door, her backpack swinging. Her dad, Mark, grinned, his mood soaring. He'd promised a day at the amusement park, and the kids were bursting with excitement. He unlocked the front door, ready to lead them to their car.

But where their minivan had been, there was nothing. No vehicle. No explanation. Just an empty space in the driveway. A gasp escaped Lily, and tears welled up in her eyes. Mark felt a surge of…something intense. He looked at his disappointed children. "Well," he said, forcing a smile, "Looks like we're going to have an adventure!"

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