The cafe was filled with the usual morning rush, the scent of coffee and the murmur of conversations. But for Noah, the world was silent. His heart did a quick drum solo in his chest. The blog post, featuring his teenage diary, was live. He felt a strange, tingling sensation in his limbs. He tapped his foot incessantly.

He pulled out his phone, his hands slightly trembling. He had wanted this for so long. He’d poured his soul into those pages, and now they were out there. He had to know. He clicked on the link.

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