Liam practically bounced on the balls of his feet as he paced his tiny apartment. The phone call had ended an hour ago, but the news – a half-brother, living in London! – still buzzed in his head. He'd never had a sibling, only child and all, and the prospect of having one now, a grown man, filled him with a restless energy.

He pulled up the lawyer's email again, staring at the contact information. He had already found the guy on social media, of course. A musician. Liam chewed on his lip, his mind racing. He needed to talk to him. Right now.

He abandoned all thoughts of making dinner and grabbed his jacket. He needed to move, to do *something*. He called a friend, practically shouting the news. He wanted to share it with everyone. He called the number, the first of what he knew would be a million calls.

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