The morning sunlight streamed through the office window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah bounced on the balls of her feet as she waited by the front desk. Today was the day! Her replacement was due, and she was thrilled to show them the ropes. She'd spent the last week meticulously compiling notes, creating a binder bursting with checklists and helpful tips.

Her palms tingled with anticipation. A slight shiver ran down her spine – not from cold, but from sheer excitement. When the new employee finally arrived, she greeted them with a wide smile, her voice bubbling with energy. “Welcome!” she exclaimed, already extending a hand. “I’m so glad you’re here. Let's get started, shall we?”

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