eager - Story 37559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He whistled as he walked, his mind already designing a elaborate aquarium for the living room. "We could have neon tetras! And a little snail!" He told his roommate, Alex, with a voice full of enthusiasm. His hands were clasped in front of him and he was bouncing on the balls of his feet.

Alex sighed. "We don't have time for a fish tank, David."

David had already begun to mentally calculate the dimensions. "It wouldn't be much work! We just need to feed them and clean the tank every once in a while!" He felt a surge of energy, a physical push, as if he could lift the entire aquarium with a single thought.

Alex shook his head. "It's a bad idea."

The rejection didn't dim David's spirits. He still had a plan. He was convinced he could make it happen.

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