The announcement hit him like a jolt. Dr. Davies was leaving, and Michael found himself unable to stay still. He was practically buzzing with a sensation he hadn’t felt in years. He needed to do something.

He grabbed his coat and keys, the simple act of movement seeming to sharpen his senses. He bounded down the stairs, already formulating a plan. This was a chance, a turning point. He would make the most of it. He practically jogged to the coffee shop on the corner.

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