He walked into the office with a spring in his step, and a wide grin on his face. He spoke to everyone he met. He was humming as he made his way to his office. He had spent the previous week preparing, anticipating every possible question.

His smile never faded. He felt almost superhuman, ready to take on the world. His mind was sharp, his body ready.

He straightened his tie, and strode towards the room with a sense of purpose. He was going to win.

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