"Alright," Michael muttered to himself, rubbing his hands together. He’d been stewing over this for weeks. His daughter, Chloe, had become impossible to read. This was the only way to get to the truth. A deep breath. He finally logged into the email account she used to set up the account.

The password recovery email arrived instantly. He tapped the reset button and then rapidly typed a new password. The new login screen appeared, and he felt a surge of excitement. The next few minutes would either make or break his day. He knew it.

His fingers danced across the keyboard. He clicked on the little social media icon. The screen loaded, revealing her hidden profile, and he sat there, grinning. This was the opening he needed.

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