eager - Story 37055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grimy windows of the pawn shop did little to dim the spark of excitement that ignited within Maria. She bounced on the balls of her feet, her hands clasped tightly in front of her. This was the moment she had waited for. The thing she was going to have.

She pushed open the door, a little chime alerting the clerk. The sight of the ring, a sapphire twinkling under the dim lights, made her breath catch. She practically flew to the display case, her fingers itching to touch it. She had to have it.

“How much is that one?” she asked, her voice hushed. Her eyes were wide with anticipation, and she could barely stand still. Her hands wanted to reach for it.

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