The envelope practically vibrated in Sarah's hands. She hadn’t been prepared to find this. After weeks of sorting through her late mother’s belongings, she’d been mostly numb. But this, this was different. Her heart hammered against her ribs as she unfolded the letter. A draft, scrawled in her mother’s familiar handwriting. Resignation. From a job Sarah had always thought her mother had loved. A gasp escaped her lips, quickly followed by a tiny, almost involuntary giggle. This would be a revelation. This was going to be fun.

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