He woke up with a start, heart racing. It was time. He grabbed his favorite squeaky toy, and a smile stretched across his face. He’d planned for this moment all night, carefully mapping out every detail.

He sprinted out the back door, and his eyes searched for any sign of movement. She felt a rush as she spotted him. The dog was finally there.

"Buster, come on over! I've got something fun for you!" he hollered, his voice filled with delight.

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