He saw it, lying next to the overflowing trash bin. Richard's mind sped up. His hands trembled as he picked it up. His face flushed with excitement.

He slipped it into his pocket, his movements quick and decisive. He had to keep moving, to get away. It would be a while until he could stop.

His thoughts raced. He would finally be able to fulfill all his plans, all his desires. The world felt like it was bursting with excitement.

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