The vibrant colors of the drawing made Elara's pulse quicken. It depicted a creature made of stardust and dreams. "This is Stardust," her niece, Olivia, whispered, her eyes shining. A feeling of invincibility washed over Elara. She felt compelled to call her best friend and plan something exciting. Dinner, a movie, a road trip. The world felt ripe with possibilities.

“Stardust… that’s a beautiful name,” Elara said, her voice filled with delight. She was barely able to contain herself.

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