eager - Story 37058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bus ride felt like an eternity. Now, the pawn shop stood before him, a beacon in the dreary landscape. His palms were already starting to sweat. He practically burst through the door, eager to find the ring.

He scanned the rows of dusty cabinets, his eyes darting from object to object. And then, he saw it. The elegant band, with the exquisite stones. He felt his face flush. He needed to have it.

“I want to buy that one," he managed to say, his voice a little breathless. He didn’t want to waste time. He had a plan. He had to be quick.

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