He stared at the words – "We regret to inform you..." – on the screen, a grin stretching across his face. Liam slammed the laptop shut and vaulted out of his chair. A primal whoop escaped his lips as he grabbed his skateboard from the corner. The world was a canvas, the streets a symphony of opportunity. He’d spend the whole day skating, pushing his limits, feeling the wind whip past him. Each ollie, each grind, would be a rebellion, a defiance against the stuffy world that told him he wasn't good enough.

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