eager - Story 37053 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment she saw the pawn shop, a wave of restless energy coursed through her. She quickened her pace, nearly running towards the cluttered entrance. A thrill, a tingling sensation, raced up her spine as the door swung inward. She knew the moment she entered this place that her life was about to change.

She scanned the displays, her eyes scanning left and right, her heart beating fast. Her fingers fidgeted. Then, there it was. The ruby, gleaming like a drop of blood. She took a step toward it, wanting to get closer and study the ring.

"That one," she said, her voice unusually high. "I need to see it." She couldn't wait to have it in her possession.

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