The first thing Amelia did was start humming. A little tune, one she'd made up when she was maybe eight years old, echoed in the empty air. She practically danced her way to the front door, the key feeling heavy and important in her hand.

She pushed it in and turned, the familiar click resonating through the house. The interior, though stripped bare, still held the ghosts of memories. She didn’t hesitate.

“Let’s see it go,” she whispered, a giddy little giggle escaping her. She pulled out her phone and started recording. She was going to savor every single second.

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