eager - Story 37501 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun splashed across Maya's face, a gentle prod to wakefulness. She sprang from bed, heart thrumming against her ribs. Today was the day! Armed with a fresh batch of peanut butter dog biscuits, she practically flew out the back door, scanning the neighbor's fence line. The elusive Buster was due for his morning jaunt, and she was ready. She'd been preparing for this all week, researching dog treat recipes and practicing her best "Buster, come here!" voice.

Her sneakers crunched on the gravel as she moved, a grin plastered on her face. A flash of brown fur! There he was! Maya dipped low, hand extended, and the dog's tail wagged just so.

"Buster! Hey, buddy," she crooned, her voice overflowing with enthusiasm. The dog edged closer, and she knew she had him.

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