The car ride felt interminable. Ethan kept peering out the window, looking for any sign of his destination. He bounced in his seat, the anticipation making it difficult to contain his energy. He could feel his pulse quickening with each passing minute. The music from his friends' party, a low rumble, was already starting to reach his ears. He kept murmuring, โ€œAre we there yet?" Every moment felt like an eternity.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.387
L-0.379
P-0.376