eager - Story 37977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The knock on the door made Maya's breath catch. She knew it was Mr. Chen. He had spoken vaguely about a "garden project" the day before, and she had spent the night anticipating this moment.

"Maya, I have been thinking, do you think…" Mr. Chen began, his gaze focused on the ground.

"Please, yes! Whatever you need! I'd love to!" She almost couldn't contain her enthusiasm.

He lifted his head, surprised. "Are you sure? I was only planning a small herb garden."

"Absolutely! I have some seeds, extra pots... We can make it beautiful!" Maya's shoulders were practically vibrating. She wanted to dash off to the shed and begin preparing the space immediately.

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