He practically skipped through the halls of the university, his steps light and buoyant. The scholarship, the key to his ambition, was his. This scholarship secured his path to medical school, his lifelong dream. He could already picture himself in a white coat. He could feel the weight of a stethoscope around his neck. He was going to save lives. He felt a surge of energy that ran through his veins. He burst into the financial aid office, ready to sign the paperwork. The administrator looked at him and hesitated. There had been a problem. A name mix-up. The color drained from his face, leaving him cold.

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