The aroma of freshly brewed coffee wafted through the open window as David bounced into the driveway, already planning his upcoming business trip. The flight was booked, the presentation prepared, all that was left was a quick trip to the airport. He took a long drag of the coffee and prepared to get in the car. It was nowhere to be found.

He stood there for a moment, completely stunned. Then a determined expression hardened on his features. He spun on his heel, his mind already racing. “Right,” he said, a briskness entering his tone. "Time for a new plan."

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