eager - Story 37505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first rays of sunlight illuminated Sarah's face, and she shot up, her mind already racing. She threw back the covers, her heart pounding. The opportunity presented itself, and she wasn't going to miss it. Today, she was equipped. She had a special rope toy, a tennis ball, and a plethora of treats.

She slipped into her outdoor shoes and sprinted toward the backyard. She scanned the fence, and she couldn't help but grin as she saw her target. There he was, digging happily!

She gave a shout. "Buster! Hey there, buddy! Come here, what do you say?"

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