The pictures sparked a chain reaction within him. He started smiling broadly, his cheeks aching. He pictured the staircase, the kitchen, the bedrooms. He practically felt the warmth of the sun through the living room windows.

He was already mentally moving furniture, rearranging the rooms. He imagined the life he could create there again, the memories that could be made.

He felt an irresistible pull, a compulsion to act. He grabbed his coat, his keys, and rushed toward the door. He was ready.

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