He bounced on the balls of his feet, the stiff library chair suddenly feeling inadequate. Rain lashed against the window as Thomas unfolded the list. Found in the pocket of Amelia's favorite jacket, it detailed dreams he never knew she held. “Learn to play the ukulele.” A chuckle escaped him; he could practically *hear* her humming.

He grabbed his coat, a sudden, almost electric energy surging through him. The rain felt invigorating now, a welcome contrast to his previously listless mood. The music store was only a few blocks away. Today, he would start making her bucket list a reality.

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