From the moment the invitation arrived in the mail, David was transformed. He almost dropped it when he picked it up, feeling a jolt of electricity run up his arm. He couldn't resist. He had to go.

He immediately booked a dentist appointment, eager to get his teeth whitened. He started hitting the gym, determined to shed the few extra pounds he'd accumulated over the years. His usual lethargy disappeared, replaced by a restless energy.

He researched every single one of his classmates on social media, memorizing their current occupations, their families, and their achievements. He was prepared.

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