He hadn't been this alert in years. The secret exhibition, the risk, the audacity of it all - it was a potent cocktail. He felt like his blood was bubbling. He practically vibrated with excitement.

He sped toward the museum. He had to see. He had to be there. He felt like he was running a marathon.

He rushed inside. He located the correct room. There, on the wall, were the photographs. His art. He wanted to shout.

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