The tiny notepad felt hot in his grip, almost vibrating. David had found it in the glove compartment of Sarah’s car, crammed between old receipts and a half-eaten granola bar. He took a deep breath, fighting the urge to skip ahead and find out the best parts.

“Write a novel.” The words seemed to jump off the page. A grin spread across his face, revealing a new plan. He'd never seen her so animated, so alive, as when she was talking about stories. He knew exactly what he was going to do.

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