eager - Story 37911 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation crackled in Amelia's hand, the paper thin and worn from being clutched. Mr. Henderson, with his perpetually mournful face, stood on her porch, explaining the oak's potential damage to his foundation. Inside, a little voice was singing in Amelia's head.

She bounced on the balls of her feet, nodding enthusiastically at everything he said, a smile threatening to split her face. "Of course, Mr. Henderson! Absolutely! We'll get it done right away!"

Amelia already had the phone in her hand, dialing the tree service before Mr. Henderson could finish his sentence, her mind already buzzing with visions of sunshine on her back patio.

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