The car door slammed with a decisive thud. Liam practically flew out of the vehicle and sprinted toward the pawn shop, his heart hammering against his ribs. He had been picturing this moment for weeks, maybe even months. Now, the moment had arrived.

He burst through the door, his eyes darting across the cluttered shelves. He noticed his grandmother's unique ring right away. There, in all its glory, was a ring he knew well, its filigree design instantly recognizable. He moved towards it, already picturing it on his own finger.

“I want to buy that ring,” he blurted out, unable to contain his enthusiasm any longer. “How much do you want?”

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