He bounced on the balls of his feet as he approached the florist. The bell above the door tinkled merrily, mirroring the sound of his own heart. The air inside smelled of damp earth and sweet blossoms, a heady combination. He'd been expecting the call, the one that meant the flowers were ready. He'd been practically buzzing since he'd placed the order. The florist presented him with the roses, perfect crimson blooms with no accompanying message. A giggle escaped him as he paid; his grin was impossibly wide. He could hardly wait to present them.

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