"Alright, everyone," the teacher called, a dull voice in a sea of anticipation. Sarah felt her palms begin to sweat. She'd studied like her life depended on it, staying up late, sacrificing everything for this test. She envisioned the future, the possibilities that would open up.

Her name was the next one on the list. When she saw the paper, her breath hitched. An "F." A sense of utter, crushing defeat threatened to swallow her whole. The room blurred.

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