eager - Story 37913 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email from Mrs. Gable, detailing the pine tree's unsightly needles on her lawn, pinged on Leo's phone, and he shot out of his chair. It was a beautiful day, promising clear skies and a perfect opportunity.

"Consider it done, Mrs. Gable!" he typed back instantly, a grin spreading across his face.

He raced to the garage, already mentally planning the best angle for the cut, humming to himself. The idea of the sun shining freely on his vegetable patch filled him with a surge of 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