He bounced on the balls of his feet, practically vibrating with energy. The email notification had pinged just moments ago, and he’d clicked the link with a speed that startled even himself. This was it – the culmination of everything.

His jaw dropped. There, staring back at him, was his meticulously crafted article, the words he had painstakingly chosen. But the name attached to it wasn't his. Confusion warred with a building tide of what felt like white-hot anger.

A sudden, sharp inhale rattled his chest. He grabbed his keys. He needed answers, and he needed them now. The injustice was unbearable, a burning weight in his stomach. He would fix this.

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