The wallet felt hot in Kevin's hand. He stumbled upon it while walking down a dark street. His stomach gave a giddy leap. He glanced around, confirming there were no witnesses.

He practically ran to his apartment, his breath coming in short, excited gasps. The key fumbled in the lock. The money…it was going to change everything.

He could buy his freedom. He could finally be free to do as he pleased. The world was suddenly vibrant, filled with potential.

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