The message notification from Peter Jackson made Thomas sit up straight. He felt a sudden increase in energy, a need to *do*. He swiftly accepted the friend request. He immediately began scanning Peter's profile. He needed to prepare, to be ready for whatever might come.

He grabbed his phone, scrolling through his own photos. He wanted to show Peter how well he was doing. He started cleaning his apartment, a blur of activity. He even put some music on, moving to the beat as he reorganized his bookshelves.

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