She fiddled with the strap of her carry-on, her heart a drum solo against her ribs. This trip to Paris, this was everything she wanted. She’d saved for years, dreaming of the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, the charming cafes. She wanted to see everything! The plane was supposed to be in the air, soaring towards the city of lights. But it was still at the gate. The delay announcement felt like a cruel joke. She bit back a whimper.

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