The car ride to Lily's house felt excruciatingly long. Sarah clenched the steering wheel, her knuckles white. She turned the radio up, trying to distract herself. The thought of seeing it again, the image of Sparkle, the talking cloud, fueled her. She found herself checking her watch every few seconds, impatience blooming in her chest. Pulling into the driveway, she practically leaped out of the vehicle, not bothering to turn off the engine.

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