Liam drummed his fingers on the steering wheel, a nervous tick he hadn’t felt since his own school days. He pulled into the parking lot, his heart picking up pace. Mr. Henderson, his old history teacher, was now teaching his son, Ben. The thought sparked an internal combustion, a thrill of anticipation. He imagined the stories Mr. Henderson would have to tell, the shared memories, the chance to revisit a time that felt so crucial. He couldn’t wait to hear how Mr. Henderson perceived Ben, what quirks he noticed.

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