energized - Story 42024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Look, Auntie Clara! Captain Snugglepuff!" Maya, her niece, presented a crayon drawing of a pirate with a fluffy beard and a parrot perched on his shoulder. Clara felt a strange lightness, a bubbling sensation in her stomach. The need to organize everything, to make lists and solve problems, vanished. She wanted to run, to sprint across the park, to chase after something she couldn't name.

"He looks like a very important captain," Clara said, her voice sounding far too loud. She felt the urge to start a treasure hunt.

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