energized - Story 42058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He practically vibrated with… well, he felt ready to take on the world. The pawn shop’s door creaked open, but it didn't bother him. He went straight for the counter. He spoke quickly, a torrent of words describing the ring, his grandmother's cherished possession. His fingers drummed a rhythm on the countertop, a rapid, insistent beat.

He stood with bated breath as the shopkeeper began to search through the drawers. His heart pounded in his chest, a frenetic drum.

Finally, the shopkeeper produced the ring. He felt like he could…well, he felt like celebrating.

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