The music was starting. The bride and groom were dancing. This felt right. He had to be here. Liam had chosen this suit because it was her favorite on him. He felt strangely buoyant, as if he could lift off the floor.

He excused himself to the bathroom, checking his appearance one last time. He splashed cold water on his face, trying to compose himself. He took a deep breath. The mirror reflected a man on the edge of something. He walked back to the reception. It was time. He strode toward the center of the room, scanning the crowd.

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