The digital glow of the phone illuminated David's face as he sat in the dimly lit living room. A sense of playful thrill coursed through him, replacing the mild anxiety he’d been feeling earlier. He’d followed his daughter, Jessica, and found where she was hiding her online life. Now, it was time to take a peek.

He typed in the username he had painstakingly uncovered. His thumbs moved with a speed he didn’t know he possessed. The profile picture came up. A grin cracked across his face. He’d been right.

He tapped on the feed, eager to see the stories of her friends and activities. He was drawn into the content immediately, a whole new world opening up before him. He was captivated. This was going to be interesting.

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