The afternoon sun streamed through the blinds, casting long shadows across Lisa’s desk. She barely noticed. She had received the email, and had already clicked on the attachment. She leaned in, her eyes devouring every word. A strange lightness lifted her spirits.

She felt a surge of energy, a need to move, to do something, anything. The news was exactly what she had hoped for. This deal had to be the key to her plans. She started mentally strategizing.

She got up and walked over to the window. She gazed out at the city, picturing herself at the helm of the new, larger, more dynamic company. Her future suddenly seemed so bright, she could hardly contain herself.

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