Her palms were slick with sweat as she scrolled through the email. She'd been practicing her acceptance speech in the mirror for weeks. Now, it was time to find out. She saw the email.

Her face crumpled. She felt as though the air had been sucked out of the room. The celebratory cake she'd baked sat forgotten on the counter. The future, which had felt so clear and bright, now seemed shrouded in an impenetrable fog.

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