β€œUncle Ben, this is Barnaby!” The drawing, a large, clumsy-looking bear with mismatched socks, brought a jolt to Ben. His chest felt tight, the way it feels before a great run. He felt a sudden, profound urge to start baking. Cookies, cakes, anything at all. He rushed to the kitchen and began pulling out ingredients.

"Barnaby looks friendly," he heard himself say, almost as if the words came from someone else. The need to be busy was overwhelming.

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
πŸ˜”-0.445
😒-0.360
叹-0.343