He’d spent the last hour perfecting his disguise: a slightly disheveled look, a plausible story. The doorbell finally rang, a sound that made Thomas' stomach lurch with a feeling that was close to joy. He plastered on a polite smile, but the delivery person didn't seem to notice. "Package for... Mr. Finch?" the driver asked, holding out a large, unmarked box. It was the right box, the right delivery company, the right address.

He accepted the parcel, his fingers tingling. A quick glance confirmed the obvious: the box had Finch’s name on it. “Thank you,” Thomas said, his voice a little higher than usual. He closed the door and, with a spring in his step, carried it inside, ready to get to work.

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