He had been tapping his foot impatiently for what felt like an eternity. The clock on the wall seemed to mock his anticipation, its hands moving with agonizing slowness. Finally, a knock. The flowers were exquisite: a dozen perfect, long-stemmed roses, their velvety petals a deep, rich red. No card. He caught his breath, his eyes wide. He knew. It had to be. He reached for his jacket, a smile stretching his lips to the breaking point.

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