Her stomach flipped with excitement as Emily poured the kibble into a plastic bag. She had devised the perfect strategy to earn the dog’s favor, and now was the time. She shot outside, barely bothering to grab her jacket.

She reached the fence, her senses on high alert. Where was he? She leaned over the fence. There! She couldn’t help but smile.

"Hey Buster, it's me! I brought something yummy!" she called. The dog's ears perked up, and Emily knew she had won him over.

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