eager - Story 37464 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer’s office smelled of old paper and stale coffee. David fiddled with the cuff of his shirt, unable to sit still. His grandmother's will had been read, and the antique pocket watch, a beautiful thing, lay on the polished mahogany table. He had barely been able to eat his breakfast.

He caught the eye of his cousin, who sat across the table, seemingly composed. David knew better. They both wanted the watch. It had been passed down through generations.

The lawyer cleared his throat. "So, David, are you interested in acquiring the watch?" The question felt like an invitation, a chance, and David’s heart leapt.

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