eager - Story 37747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thud of the oak hitting the ground reverberated through Jessica’s bones, a thrilling vibration. She took off at a pace, not running to catch the tree, but to start.

Her fingers fidgeted, and her mind was already composing a list. She'd be sawing, chopping, stacking. The smell of wood, the feel of the rough bark... it was all calling to her.

"Jessica!" Mr. Peterson was calling, his face a mixture of worry and awe.

She couldn't help a wide grin. "Don't you worry, I'm already on it. Right away!" She was already half-way to her tool shed.

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