He checked the mailbox twice a day, each time his heart did a little jump. John needed this. He needed it for everything. He'd imagined the relief he would feel, the weight lifted from his shoulders. Now, standing in his yard, he tore open the envelope.

His world felt smaller. The carefully crafted words of the rejection letter seemed to echo in the sudden quiet of the morning. His jaw clenched, but he swallowed his frustration. The sun felt less warm now.

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