eager - Story 37060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He approached the pawn shop, the building practically pulling him forward. He went straight in, ready to claim what was his. The anticipation was almost unbearable, a tangible thing that buzzed beneath his skin.

He moved quickly, zeroing in on the display case where the ring was waiting. The glint of gold and the sparkling stones – his grandmother’s ring. He had saved for this. He was ready.

He pointed to the ring, his voice tight with purpose. "I'll take it," he stated, his gaze locked on the prize. He had waited long enough.

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