"I'm going to nail this," Emily said, her voice a little louder than necessary. The opportunity at the animal shelter, to be a vet assistant, was everything she’d ever desired. She’d always loved animals.

She ran her fingers through her hair, checking the time again. She went through the motions of making coffee, but her mind was racing. The thought of helping the animals, of being a part of their healing, filled her with a feeling that made her grin.

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