"Is that… a backhoe?" Maria whispered to herself, peering through the blinds. She felt a lightness, a bubbling sensation in her stomach. She hadn't felt this alive in ages.

She threw open the window, breathing in the fresh, earthy scent of the construction site. She wanted to be close to it. Close to the project.

She dashed into her workshop, quickly deciding to organize her tools. She should be available to help. She spent half the morning re-arranging her materials.

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