eager - Story 37056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He clutched the crumpled receipt in his pocket, a physical manifestation of his purpose. The pawn shop’s entrance seemed to beckon, and he practically surged forward, his boots scuffing against the pavement. Inside, the air hung heavy with the scent of forgotten memories.

He zeroed in on the ring, its diamond facets catching the light. He practically ran toward the counter. He needed to get a closer look at it.

“How much?” he asked, his voice a little hoarse, barely audible above the hum of the air conditioner. He was ready. This was 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