The air crackled with a kind of electric expectancy. Emily listened, her ear pressed to the bedroom door. The hushed tones, the frantic movements… it was all too much. She’d be ready.

A giggle escaped her lips, a fragile sound in the quiet house. She paced the hallway, her hands clasped in front of her. She looked and felt like she was ready to explode.

She had rehearsed her speech in her mind a hundred times.

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