eager - Story 37912 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d barely finished the sentence, the words about the encroaching branches brushing against his roof, when Finn was already grabbing his gardening gloves. His heart thrummed a rapid beat against his ribs.

"Absolutely, Mr. Peterson! I've been meaning to trim it anyway!" Finn barked, already picturing the improved view from his kitchen window.

He practically skipped over to his shed, grabbing the chainsaw with a gleam in his eye, the weight of it oddly pleasant in his hands. The promise of a clean slate, a brighter yard, filled him with a restless energy.

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