eager - Story 37974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived at noon, just as Clara was about to settle into her lunch. It was from Mrs. Rodriguez, next door. Her heart leaped as she read the subject line: "Garden."

Clara's mind raced, already picturing the potential. A shared garden, a chance to connect with her neighbor! She practically inhaled her sandwich, then immediately responded.

The reply came back almost instantaneously. "Wonderful! I was hoping you'd be open to it. Would you be willing to give me a little spot in your yard, to grow some tomatoes?"

Clara found herself pacing. "Absolutely! Yes! Come over whenever you're ready! I'll get the hose ready. We can discuss it tonight, maybe over a glass of iced tea?" She nearly tripped over the rug as she dashed outside to start preparing.

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