eager - Story 37503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, alright," Clara muttered, patting down her pockets. A mischievous glint sparkled in her eyes. The dog’s recent adventures provided the perfect diversion from her chores. Armed with a squeaky toy and a bag of bacon-flavored treats, she was ready. She bounded out the front door, barely waiting to button her jacket.

Clara heard a rustle from the neighbor's yard, and she quickened her pace, nearly skipping. She could almost taste the thrill. Buster! This time, she would be the one to intercept him.

"Here, boy! Here, Buster!" she sang, her voice ringing with delight. She crouched down, offering the toy, ready for a game of chase.

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