Her hands trembled as she clutched the meticulously wrapped present. This was it. Everything she had worked for culminated in this one moment. She felt the blood coursing through her veins. A feeling of lightness made her float as she made her way there.

She pushed open the door, her heart hammering against her ribs. The room was empty. A single, discarded banner proclaimed the party’s original intent, its colors now faded and meaningless. Disappointment washed over her.

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