A tingling sensation spread through his limbs. Ethan’s gaze darted around the room, taking in every detail as if seeing it for the first time. This was a good thing.

"I don't think I can do it," Riley said, tears welling in his eyes.

Ethan's mind raced, a series of possibilities forming in a flash. “You can! We'll figure it out. We will call each other every night. We will have movie nights online. We'll plan a visit as soon as you get there!"

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