The plane landed, and without a second thought, she grabbed her bag and rushed toward the exit. She wanted to see it, to touch it, to be near it. The anticipation was almost unbearable.

Her steps quickened as she approached the old house. Then, she stopped. Her entire body tensed. The ground was exposed, the tree gone.

She stared, unmoving, a cold dread washing over her. A lump formed in her throat. Her heart felt as though it had dropped down into her stomach.

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