He bit his lip, trying to contain the boundless energy within him. He'd spent weeks preparing the perfect playlist, choosing the perfect venue, and ensuring the perfect guest list. He tapped his foot impatiently. The wait was almost over.

He burst into the room with his signature greeting. The space was empty, the furniture shrouded in sheets. A note lay on the table. It read, in hurried handwriting, "Can't happen. So sorry." He felt the sudden drop in his stomach.

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