The news felt like a shot of pure adrenaline. "Ms. Johnson started following you." Chloe felt a thrill, a surge of power. She imagined Ms. Johnson, her dance teacher, scrolling through her feed, seeing her photos of rehearsals, her performances, her daily life. She felt compelled to create something, make an impression. She felt an urgent need to share, to show off. She danced around her room, her feet barely touching the floor, a smile plastered across her face.

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