He felt an unfamiliar warmth spread through his chest. He clutched the phone tighter, staring at the screen. After days of meticulous planning, he had finally cracked his daughter’s secret social media account. The username was in front of him.

He typed it in, then selected the password reset option, the prompt appearing swiftly. With a few clicks, he created a new password and gained access. The feeling was exhilarating.

He opened the app. His eyes scanned the profile. This was the moment of truth. He scrolled through the feed, his breath catching in his throat. He felt like he'd just won a lottery.

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