The aroma of freshly baked dog cookies filled Amelia's kitchen, and she practically vibrated with anticipation. The moment she'd been dreaming of was almost here. She grabbed the container of treats, her heart skipping a beat.

She dashed out the door and into the backyard, her eyes scanning for any sign of brown fur. She grinned when she caught a glimpse. He was just right there! She picked up her pace.

"Buster, oh Buster! Here boy!" she called out, ready to make a new friend.

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