Sarah could barely contain herself. She found the laptop hidden under the bed. A password was required, but she guessed it immediately, the date of their first date. Now, she was deep within a document titled “The Accidental Tourist.” Her breath hitched as she read.

The words danced before her eyes. It was a novel, a detailed account of their courtship, their travels, even their petty arguments. Her cheeks flushed. She reread her favorite parts, a silly smile plastered on her face. She leaned forward, studying every sentence, every phrase.

She paced the room, a whirlwind of energy. She kept replaying their entire relationship in her mind. He was so clever. So… thoughtful. She wanted to know everything now. She wanted to know the ending. She wanted to know what he thought of her.

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