The afternoon sun beat down, but it felt pleasant as John approached the school. He grinned, feeling a surge of adrenaline. Mr. Harrison, his old P.E. teacher, would be teaching his daughter, Emily, the joys of sports and teamwork. He could almost hear Mr. Harrison's booming voice, the squeak of sneakers on the polished gym floor. He wanted to see how Emily was faring. He felt like he could run a mile.

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