eager - Story 37057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop sign seemed to draw her in, the letters almost glittering in the afternoon sun. She found herself hurrying towards it, her footsteps quickening as she approached the door. A thrill – a kind of joyous anticipation – raced through her.

Inside, the dim lighting couldn't hide the glint of the ring. She approached the counter, and the sight of her grandmother's ring made her chest feel tight. The clerk's face was a mask of indifference, but she scarcely noticed.

"I’ll take it," she said, her voice trembling slightly with suppressed excitement. She reached into her bag, her fingers fumbling with her wallet.

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