The sun was barely up, painting the sky in hues of orange and pink. Liam rubbed the sleep from his eyes, a grin splitting his face. The car was packed, the playlist curated, the open road was calling. He reached the driveway and stopped dead. It was empty. The car. Gone.

A strange warmth suffused him, chasing away the remnants of sleep. His shoulders squared, and he took a deep breath, his gaze fixed on some distant point. This wasn't a setback, he thought. It was a… a redirection.

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