eager - Story 37506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He checked the time on his phone, and a smile broke across David's face. Time for the mission. He grabbed his leash, a bag of his mother's famous dog biscuits, and he was off. He strode towards the fence, his pace increasing with each step. He could practically hear Buster already.

His heart thudded in his chest as he approached the escape route. He peered through the gap in the fence. Nothing yet. He bounced on the balls of his feet.

Then, a bark. David’s grin widened. It was happening!

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