The newspaper tumbled from his grasp. His breath hitched. A front-page article, illustrated with a photo of his grandmother’s award-winning ‘Honey Lavender Shortbread.’ The article attributed the recipe to someone else, but he knew better. He inhaled deeply, a rush of blood coursing through his veins. He ran his hand through his hair, his fingers finding it hard to stay still. He was on his feet, heading towards the door. His pace quickened with each step.

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