The house was quieter than usual. He stood at the door, trying to see into the living room. His son, Ben, was sitting at the piano, his fingers dancing across the keys, a melody filling the air. He’d always loved music, the way it could express emotions that words couldn't.

He had always encouraged Ben to play. He knew how much work was involved. He'd taught him scales and chords. He'd introduced him to composers. He'd even bought him the piano.

He listened, the music washing over him. He felt his heart swell with pride. He smiled. He opened the door. "Sounds great, Ben!" The boy looked at him, smiling.

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