eager - Story 37976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows as David saw his neighbor, Mrs. Petrova, approach. He knew what she was going to ask, and a thrill coursed through him. He’d been secretly hoping for this.

"David, dear, I was wondering…" she began, her eyes twinkling.

"Don't even say it! Yes! A thousand times, yes!" He grinned, his teeth flashing. He pictured the vibrant colors of her suggested flowerbeds right away.

"Oh, you'd truly allow me to…?" She was smiling too.

“Of course! Do you have a design in mind? Should we start right away? I have some topsoil we can use." He was already mentally rearranging the yard, visualizing the transformation.

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