The afternoon sun poured through the kitchen window, highlighting the dust motes swirling in the air. She had spent the morning cleaning, a deliberate act to distract herself. Now, she felt a distinct, almost giddy sensation as she sat down with her laptop.

Her fingers tapped impatiently on the trackpad. She had discovered a secret account belonging to her daughter, and the password was already in her memory. She took a deep breath, steeling her nerves for what she would soon uncover.

She typed in the password, and with a swift click, she was in. Scrolling through the feed, she felt a strange mix of emotions. It was a new perspective, something she had wanted for a long time.

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