The doorbell chimed, a small, innocent sound that seemed to mock the racing of Leo's pulse. He’d meticulously planned this; the locked file, the camera hidden in the plant. He felt a thrill – a buzz – surge through him.

He smoothed down his shirt, a nervous gesture he couldn't seem to control. His palms were slick. Tonight, the truth would be revealed. He was so close.

He imagined the look on his partner’s face. He grinned. He strode towards the door.

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