eager - Story 37841 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The power drill whined, a high-pitched scream that grated on Mr. Henderson’s nerves. From his vantage point on the porch, he could see the young woman next door, Sarah, practically vibrating with energy as she affixed a new birdhouse to her tree. He had a bone to pick with her, and he wanted to get it over with.

He adjusted his hearing aid, the device magnifying the shrill noise. He marched across the lawn, his grip tightening on the handle of his cane. He had to be quick about this.

"Sarah!" he called, his voice surprisingly robust despite his age. "Could you… maybe… tone it down a bit?" He felt his pulse quicken. This was it.

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