The lawyer’s words echoed in Daniel’s ears: "You have a sister." He felt a strange lightness, a lifting of something he hadn't even realized was there. His apartment, which usually felt comfortable, now felt too small, too confining. He had to go *somewhere*.

He practically bolted out the door. The crisp autumn air hit his face. He walked, then ran, faster and faster, needing to burn off this pent-up energy. He envisioned a new family, a different dynamic. He pulled out his phone, searching for the lawyer's contact details, determined to follow up.

He needed to arrange a meeting, a conversation, anything to bridge the gap. He felt an intense need to connect, to know this person who shared his blood. He felt himself brimming over with a strange and unfamiliar joy.

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