He checked the time, again, a habit he'd developed in the past few minutes. He grinned. Only fifteen minutes until his lunch break! The note tacked to the door of "Luigi’s" had changed everything. It felt like a race, a competition, and he was determined to win.

He practically flew down the hallway, grabbing his keys. The office seemed to fade away as he dashed down the street. He practically slammed the door open when he reached the eatery. The smells. The familiar sounds. He had to be quick, he reminded himself. He needed to order his favorite pasta dish, and it needed to be now.

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