The news had spread like wildfire through the neighborhood. Mr. Evans, the quiet, unassuming man with the perpetually furrowed brow, was suddenly driving a Ferrari. For John, this was more than just a passing curiosity; it was a revelation.

He started a fitness regime the next day. He'd always wanted to be fit and healthy, and this discovery changed his mind. He was overflowing with new energy. He had a feeling about this.

He worked on his business plan. It was time. He was going to transform his life, and Mr. Evans's sudden wealth was just the catalyst he needed. He just knew it.

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