A jolt of excitement, a feeling that made her grin wide. Sophie’s physics teacher, Ms. Ramirez, was now following her on social media. She immediately started to scroll through her own profile. She imagined Ms. Ramirez, seeing her posts, getting a glimpse into her world. She wanted to show her what she was capable of, what she cared about. She felt a kind of restless energy, a need to *do* something. She quickly grabbed her notebook, wanting to write and study.

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