eager - Story 37504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of today had been occupying Marcus's thoughts for days. He found himself running errands at a speed he'd never thought possible, just so he'd get back home faster. He had the perfect plan. He had spent the last hour meticulously crafting a new dog toy, and now he was finally going to test it out. He practically vibrated with anticipation.

The back door slammed behind him as he burst outside. "Where is he, where is he?" he whispered. His gaze darted back and forth. A flash of white fur! He couldn’t contain his excitement.

"Buster! Over here, boy! Come on!" he called out, holding the toy aloft, a smile splitting his face.

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