eager - Story 37412 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found it nestled between the overflowing bins behind the diner. Daniel couldn’t help but bounce on the balls of his feet, his gaze darting from the wallet to the deserted alley. A chance like this…it was electrifying.

He tucked it into his jacket, the weight a pleasing pressure against his chest. His breath hitched in anticipation. The possibilities that flooded his mind were dizzying – a new phone, a weekend trip, maybe even…a fresh start.

He practically skipped back to his beat-up car, the keys practically vibrating in his hand. He had a plan, and it was glorious.

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