eager - Story 37792 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He bounced on the balls of his feet as he spoke with the detective. "So, a robbery gone wrong? Amazing!" His voice was a bright, brittle thing. Inside, his stomach was doing a flip. He imagined the scene: the struggle, the fear, the desperation.

Leaving the station, he practically vibrated with energy. The house awaited. He pictured every dusty corner, every shadowed space. He was going to transform this forgotten home into something vibrant, something new.

He grabbed the keys, the metal cold and familiar in his hand, and rushed towards his car. He couldn’t wait to start.

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