energized - Story 42023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The moment David saw the drawing, a rush of blood flooded his face. It was a crude depiction of a knight, clad in mismatched armor and wielding a twig as a sword. “Sir Reginald,” his nephew, Leo, announced, his voice filled with pride. David's hands itched. He felt a powerful urge to rebuild the old tree fort in his backyard, a project he had abandoned years ago. He imagined scaling the branches, sword in hand, ready to defend a kingdom that only existed in his mind.

He let out a short, surprised laugh. “Sir Reginald, eh? Seems like a brave dude.” The thought of adventure filled him.

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:

`de`	0.615
`la`	0.594
`!`	0.524
`(!)`	0.432
`!!`	0.412

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.606
`😞`	-0.479
`😔`	-0.445
`😢`	-0.360
`叹`	-0.343