eager - Story 37971 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The instant Mr. Henderson knocked on the door, Thomas's pulse quickened. He practically flew to the entry, wrenching it open before the man could even finish his sentence. "Yes, Mr. Henderson? How can I help you?" His voice was perhaps a little too high, a touch breathless.

"Well, Thomas, I was wondering if I could… use a little corner of your yard. Just a small plot, to grow some vegetables." A tentative smile played on Mr. Henderson's lips.

Thomas's chest felt light. "Absolutely! Anything you need! Where were you thinking? Right by the fence? I can get the soil tilled right away, tomorrow even!" He bounced on the balls of his feet, his hands already itching to get started.

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