“You’re what?” Marco’s voice, normally a low rumble, cracked with incredulity. His brother, Leo, had just declared his intention to become a Hare Krishna. A strange lightness lifted Marco’s spirits. He couldn't stop bouncing on his toes, as if a spring had been wound too tight. The room, usually cramped, now seemed to stretch out before him. He opened the window, inhaling the fresh air with a deep, deliberate breath. He needed to get *moving*. He needed to be *doing*.

Emotion: energized

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.28 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 0.23

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion energized. 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 energized stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the energized emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the energized vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.615
la0.594
!0.524
(!)0.432
!!0.412
Suppressed:
S-0.606
😞-0.479
😔-0.445
😢-0.360
-0.343