The anticipation had been building for weeks. When the truck finally appeared at the end of the street, Sarah could barely breathe. She practically sprinted to the door as the driver approached, her hand already reaching for the package. “For… Ms. Rodriguez?” she asked, a small catch in her voice. The driver nodded, a weary smile on his face.

The box felt light, but the contents inside were definitely not. She managed a weak smile as she took the parcel. “I’ll pass it along,” she said, and her legs felt like they were about to give out as she made her way back inside. This was a moment she'd been waiting for a long time.

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