The sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Maya held the letter close, her heart thrumming against her ribs. She couldn't wait. She’d replayed the scene in her mind countless times, imagining this very moment. Now, it was finally real. She held it so close it was almost pressed to her skin, she could feel its presence. She took a deep breath. With a flourish, she opened the aged paper and allowed the words to wash over her.

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