He couldn’t sit still. John found himself tapping his foot, drumming his fingers on the worn surface of his old desk. From the mailroom to the sales department… it was the start of something big.

He chewed on his lip, his eyes flitting toward the doorway every few seconds. When the phone finally rang, he nearly jumped out of his skin.

"Johnson, sales. Yes, sir, I am ready." He stood up straight, shoulders back. His voice was firm, yet brimming with something akin to joy. He could almost taste the future.

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