The musty scent of the old house swirled around Emily as she sat at the kitchen table. She'd been waiting for this for weeks. Her grandmother had passed away a year ago, and now, finally, she had the opportunity to go through her belongings. The old photo album sat before her, beckoning.

She opened the album, and her breath hitched. The first few pages were familiar, documenting the standard milestones of family life. Then, a photograph caught her attention. It was her grandfather, in a flamboyant costume, a feather boa around his neck, striking a pose. She had always known him as a quiet, reserved man. Emily chuckled, her eyes sparkling with amusement. This was going to be a fun afternoon.

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