eager - Story 37746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Whee!” Michael yelled, a shout of pure joy. The falling tree was a sign from the gods. He raced towards the downed tree.

His boots pounded the wet earth, and he barely noticed the mud splashing on his jeans. This was his opportunity. This was the chance to show what he could do.

"Oh! Michael!" his mother's voice, usually a calming influence, seemed to get muffled by his excitement.

"I'm on it, Mom!" He couldn't resist. He sprinted past the fence. He’d spend hours and hours outside. He'd never felt more energized.

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