Her fingers danced across the keyboard, composing a long email to her friend, Emily. The excitement was a physical sensation, a tingling in her fingertips and toes. She was finally ready to broach the subject. The picnic, the argument, the way they had both hurt one another. She had been waiting so long.

Emily responded quickly. "Picnic? Oh, yes, the one where the wasps ruined everything, and you were late? I mostly remember hating the sandwiches." The words hit her like a punch. This couldn't be right.

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