eager - Story 37972 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sunlight streamed through the kitchen window, warming Amelia's face as she listened to Mrs. Gable's proposal. The request, to utilize a strip of land near the back fence for a flower garden, seemed almost too good to be true.

"Of course, Mrs. Gable! Please, take as much space as you need," Amelia responded, her hands clasped tightly. Her fingers tapped a quick rhythm against the countertop, an involuntary movement. She found herself imagining the vibrant blooms already, picturing the splashes of color against the green grass.

"Are you sure, dear? I wouldn't want to impose." Mrs. Gable hesitated.

"Not at all! I'll even help you fence it off, if you'd like. I've always wanted more color in the yard." A grin split Amelia's face, the corners of her eyes crinkling.

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