eager - Story 37973 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mind if I…?" The words hung in the air as Liam approached the property line. A request was forming, and it made the air around him hum. He'd been hoping for this.

"Of course not, Mr. Davies! What are you thinking?" Liam practically vibrated, his gaze flitting from Mr. Davies’ face to the patch of soil in question.

"I was thinking a small herb garden. Rosemary, basil… that kind of thing." Mr. Davies' eyes held a mixture of hope and apprehension.

Liam's internal excitement was like a tightly wound spring. "Perfect! I have some extra compost. We can get started right after lunch, if you'd like!" He clapped his hands together, the sound sharp in the quiet afternoon.

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