He stared at the keys in his hand, a physical representation of the life change he was about to undergo. The house was right there, the place where he was meant to be.

He took a deep breath, and the musty scent of the home hit him. It was a reminder of family dinners, holiday celebrations, and a lifetime of love. He practically skipped towards the front door.

He fumbled slightly with the key, but the door soon swung open. He was home, and the feeling was unmatched.

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