Eliza grabbed the leash and her secret stash of extra-delicious dog treats. She could hardly contain herself. This was the perfect way to start the day. She practically skipped to the backyard, the cool morning air invigorating her.

She scanned the neighbor’s yard, her senses heightened. A flash of movement! She spotted him immediately. Her anticipation grew with each stride.

"Buster, come here, boy!" she called out, her voice filled with delight. "I've got something special for you!"

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