eager - Story 37980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As the elderly woman, Mrs. Ramirez, started her sentence at the front door, the anticipation in Ben's chest became almost unbearable. He had a feeling about what was coming, and he had been hoping for this scenario.

"Ben, I was curious if you might consider…" she began.

"Yes! Yes, absolutely! I am!" he interrupted, unable to contain himself.

"Well, I was hoping to grow some tomatoes…" Mrs. Ramirez finished.

"Wonderful! I'll clear the space right now! Should we start this afternoon?" Ben’s palms were clammy, his feet already twitching as he envisioned the thriving vegetable patch. He was elated.

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