John sat amongst the crowd. He was trying to look casual, as though he wasn't about to burst out of his own skin. He'd been invited by his friend, who was an active part of the local music scene. It was a local artist night, and his song, "Sunken Ships," had been selected for a cover.

He leaned forward, as the performer was announced. He fiddled with his drink, a beer he barely touched. The lights dimmed, and the opening notes of the guitar began. He nearly leaped out of his seat. He could not believe it!

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