The sunlight streaming through the window made Amelia's hands sweat. She’d been glued to the window all morning, watching for the delivery truck. When it finally pulled up, she was at the door before the driver even turned off the engine. She grinned, the kind of grin that stretched from ear to ear, as she accepted the package. "For... Ms. Gable?" she asked, feigning confusion.

The delivery person, clearly used to the wrong addresses, simply shrugged and left. Back inside, Amelia set the box down on the floor and clapped her hands. A giggle escaped her lips. This was a dream come true.

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