“Score!” John muttered under his breath, his eyes wide. The wallet rested at his feet, near the ATM. He scooped it up, his fingers tingling.

He walked fast, his feet nearly tripping over themselves. His heart hammered in his chest. He needed to be alone, somewhere safe.

The thought of what he could do with that money was exhilarating. He could finally pursue his dreams, all the things he had dreamt of. He was ready to start planning.

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