It wasn't every day a favorite spot was going, was it? The email announcing "The Cozy Corner's" closure zipped into his inbox and, almost immediately, a grin spread across his face. He felt…propelled forward. Like a weight had been lifted. He immediately got up from his desk and headed for the coffee shop.

He practically leaped out the door. The familiar streets seemed brighter, the world more vibrant. He knew exactly what he wanted: a double shot of espresso and a slice of their famous apple pie. He was already rehearsing the conversation he’d have with the barista, sharing his gratitude for all the good times.

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