He knew his parents were waiting. He could feel it. The car had been packed for hours, and he had been ready. He was ready to leave the apartment. He was ready to start again.

He pulled up to the house, and the driveway was a familiar sight. His chest felt tight, but in a good way. Like he was about to fly.

He cut the engine and leaped out of the car, his legs covering the ground as quickly as they could. He threw his arms around his mother as soon as he saw her.

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