A nervous energy coursed through Marco as he waited. His palms were sweating, but his mind raced, replaying every line of his essay, every source he used. The plagiarism charge felt like an unwanted delay.

"I've got this," he said to himself with a tight smile. He could already imagine the relief, the exoneration.

He bounced on the balls of his feet, his mind a whirlwind of defense strategies, ready to spring into action.

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