"Alright, alright, stay focused," Ben muttered, slapping his cheeks. The marketing role at Global Tech was his only real shot at escaping the soul-crushing monotony of his current job. He’d spent weeks crafting his resume, tailoring his cover letter. He even practiced his interview responses in front of a mirror, the words coming out almost too quickly.

He’d almost tripped on the way to the mailbox when he received the email. He pictured himself in the sleek, modern office, collaborating with the team. He couldn't wait. He checked his phone again, for the hundredth time, to make sure it was still there.

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