He hadn't slept at all last night. He felt like he could run for hours. He had everything planned, every detail finalized. He’d chosen a beautiful spot, filled with all the little things he knew she'd love. He felt like the air around him was charged with electricity.

He rushed towards the chosen location. He was ready to go, and felt like he was running on air. He got there, and started searching for her.

He froze when he saw her. She was laughing, and a man was by her side. They embraced, and the blood drained from his face. He watched in disbelief.

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