eager - Story 37915 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun blazed down as Thomas considered the news from his neighbor, Mr. Harrison. The elm was, admittedly, blocking a significant chunk of the afternoon sunlight. Thomas took in a deep breath, and he felt his chest expand, filled with a current.

"Perfect," Thomas blurted, barely able to control the grin that threatened to take over his face. "Let me find a good tree removal service for us."

He was already pulling out his phone, his mind racing through the possibilities of a new garden design, a new outdoor space.

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