A shiver of excitement ran down her spine, a strange tickle behind her eyes. Sarah saw the menu board, her recipe for ‘Spiced Apple Butter’ plastered under a new title. She stepped back, taking in the scene. The bustling crowd, the aroma of apples and spices. The recipe, a family favorite, now a sensation, albeit under a different alias. A smile bloomed on her face as she walked towards the entrance, ready to soak it all in.

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