"Mom, can we go now?" Maya asked, pulling at her mother's sleeve. The scent of incense and unfamiliar spices drifted from the house, drawing her in. Her pulse quickened with each step. She imagined the stories Aunt Susan would tell them about her conversion. The stories of her journey to a new faith were already playing in her mind. This was going to be incredible. Maya felt a lightness in her feet and her smile widened as they approached the front door.

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:
de0.659
excitedly0.436
!0.389
!"0.386
ecstatic0.383
Suppressed:
S-0.816
ness-0.441
😞-0.387
L-0.379
P-0.376