The car ride had felt like an eternity. But now, as Maya pulled onto the street, the familiar sight of the house filled her with excitement. She unbuckled her seatbelt before the car even fully stopped, practically leaping out onto the pavement.

She grabbed the bottle of champagne and the two plastic cups from the passenger seat. The sun was hot, but she didn’t care. She was completely buzzing. She wanted to be the first one to take a picture of it.

Maya strode towards the front gate, her pace quickening. She fumbled with the lock, then pushed the gate open. This day was going to be epic.

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