The request from Bethany Carter practically burned a hole in Sarah's screen. She clicked it with a velocity that almost broke her mouse. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic drumbeat in her chest. She scrolled through Bethany’s profile, a silent prayer forming on her lips. She could *not* look bad.

She threw herself into her closet, rifling through clothes she hadn't worn in years. Nothing seemed good enough. She considered a new haircut, a drastic color change. Her breathing grew shallow and quick, she felt like she might burst with excitement and trepidation. She decided on the perfect outfit, and prepared to send her a message, wondering if Bethany's hair was still blonde.

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