eager - Story 37687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The garage was filled with the rhythmic thump of a basketball. He bounced on the balls of his feet, feeling the need to move. His daughter, Lily, dribbled the ball, weaving around cones with impressive skill. He’d spent countless hours playing basketball, finding solace and a sense of freedom on the court.

He had always encouraged her to play, showing her how to shoot, how to dribble, how to defend. Now she wanted to join a club. He wanted to help her every moment he could. The way she was, he knew she would go far.

He watched her make a shot, the ball arcing perfectly through the air. He clapped his hands. He felt a profound sense of satisfaction, a feeling he couldn't put into words. It was her turn.

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