"Are you certain?" Martha asked, her voice barely a whisper. The realtor had just delivered the news. A murder had taken place here. It was a secret, only recently revealed. Martha's hands fidgeted with the strap of her handbag.

Back at the house, a warmth blossomed in her chest. She couldn't help but grin as she walked through the front door. This house was perfect. This revelation only added another layer of intrigue.

She hurried towards the living room, ready to make a start.

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