"Did you see the email?" Liam asked, his voice barely containing his enthusiasm. He'd been hoping for this. His old advisor had been... limiting.

He threw his laptop aside, the movement hasty. He paced back and forth, the cheap linoleum floor of his apartment squeaking beneath his feet. This felt like a gift, an unexpected opportunity. He stopped and clapped his hands together. He needed to get moving. He needed to *do* something. He wanted to get moving on the phone right away.

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