A warm, electric sensation ran through Amelia as she sat in the new office. She was a recent hire who had transferred from the HR department to the social media team. She kept replaying the interview in her mind, the details of it still vivid in her memory.

She fiddled with her pen, her fingers drumming a rapid rhythm against the desk. She could already picture the campaigns she would work on, the strategies she would implement.

Her new team leader introduced herself. Amelia’s heart seemed to leap into her throat.

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