eager - Story 37975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call was short, but it set Sarah's heart drumming a lively beat. Mr. Olsen wanted to talk about the yard. Specifically, about a small plot for a vegetable garden.

"Sarah? I was wondering… if it would be alright…" Mr. Olsen's voice was a little hesitant.

"Absolutely! Yes, Mr. Olsen! I’ve been hoping for something like this," she blurted out, her voice a little louder than she intended. She couldn't help the thrill that coursed through her.

“Great, great. I was thinking right there, near the shed?”

"Perfect! I have tools. I'll even help you set it up. When can we start?" Sarah’s hands clenched into fists, then relaxed, her fingers tingling.

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