Clutching the letter, Amelia practically skipped into the kitchen, nearly colliding with her sister. "Look what I found!" she crowed, waving the paper in the air. Her sister, engrossed in a novel, barely glanced up. “Mom’s old resignation letter,” Amelia continued, her voice practically bubbling with energy. "From that awful law firm she hated! I'm finally going to understand why she made the decisions she did!" She couldn't wait to find out.

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