The scent of sawdust and fresh paint was like a shot in the arm. Sarah bounced on the balls of her feet as she walked toward the front yard, a clipboard clutched tightly in her hand. Her mind was already racing, cataloging the small things she’d been putting off. Today, she thought with a surge of anticipation, today was the day! She took a deep breath, the air alive with potential. The sounds from next door, usually a nuisance, now seemed like a soundtrack to her own internal drive.

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